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Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Bertram Cohler
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Description for Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Hardcover. Examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, this work illustrates the social transformations that these men helped shape. Editor(s): Andrews, William L. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK; HBTB; JFSK2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, ""Writing Desire"" examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar and psychoanalyst Bertram J. Cohler has carefully selected a diverse group of ten men, including historians, activists, journalists, poets, performance artists, and bloggers, whose life writing evokes the evolution of gay life in twentieth-century America. By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, Cohler illustrates the social transformations that these men helped shape. Among Cohler's diverse subjects is Alan Helms, whose journey from Indiana to New York's gay society represents the passage of men who ... Read more
Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, ""Writing Desire"" examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar and psychoanalyst Bertram J. Cohler has carefully selected a diverse group of ten men, including historians, activists, journalists, poets, performance artists, and bloggers, whose life writing evokes the evolution of gay life in twentieth-century America. By contrasting the personal experience of these disparate writers, Cohler illustrates the social transformations that these men helped shape. Among Cohler's diverse subjects is Alan Helms, whose journey from Indiana to New York's gay society represents the passage of men who ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299222000
SKU
V9780299222000
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About Bertram Cohler
Bertram J. Cohler is the William Rainey Harper Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Cohler has published widely on gay life in America and is coauthor of The Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives: Social and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
Reviews for Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
A fascinating exploration of how time and place have shaped both the writing and the reading of six generations of gay men's life stories. - Henry L. Minton, author of Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America ""Illuminates the challenges of successive generations of gay men and also explores more broadly how people experience, ... Read more