Overview
The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Readers will recognize names like Michael Cunningham, whose Pulitzer Prize--winning novel The Hours inspired the hit movie; and others like Christopher Bram, Bernard Cooper, Stephen McCauley, and Matthew Stadler. These accounts explore the vicissitudes of writing on gay male themes in fiction over the last thirty years -- prejudices of the literary marketplace; social and political questions; the impact of AIDS; commonalities between gay male and lesbian fiction...and even some delectable bits of gossip.
Full Product Details
Author: Joseph Rychlak
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.034kg
ISBN: 9780231072908
ISBN 10: 0231072902
Pages: 209
Publication Date: 23 January 1991
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
Hear Us Out is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews, Gay Fiction Speaks, a standard reference for scholars. That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book... Canning has a wonderful knack for this work. -- David McConnell, Lambda Book Report Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews -- Christopher Hennessy, The Gay and Lesbian Review
"" Hear Us Out is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews, Gay Fiction Speaks, a standard reference for scholars. That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book... Canning has a wonderful knack for this work."" -- David McConnell, Lambda Book Report ""Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews"" -- Christopher Hennessy, The Gay and Lesbian Review
""" Hear Us Out is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews, Gay Fiction Speaks, a standard reference for scholars. That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book... Canning has a wonderful knack for this work."" -- David McConnell, Lambda Book Report ""Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews"" -- Christopher Hennessy, The Gay and Lesbian Review"
Author Information
Richard Canning is lecturer in English and American literature at Sheffield University. He is author of Gay Fiction Speaks (Columbia, 2001) and writes regularly for The Independent.
