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Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America

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Description for Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5S; DSB; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 262.


How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating his identity as a gay writer, he was reinventing himself as an American one. Jaime Harker shows that Isherwood refashioned himself as an American writer following his emigration from England by immersing himself in the gay reading, writing, and publishing communities in Cold War America.


Drawing extensively on Isherwood’s archives, ... Read more


Weaving together biography, history, and literary criticism, Middlebrow Queer traces the continuous evolution of Isherwood’s simultaneously queer and American postwar authorial identity. In doing so, the book illuminates many aspects of Cold War America’s gay print cultures, from gay protest novels to “out” pulp fiction.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679140
SKU
V9780816679140
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jaime Harker
Jaime Harker is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is author of America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars and coeditor, with Cecilia Konchar Farr, of The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah’s Book Club.

Reviews for Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America
"Jaime Harker’s approach to Isherwood’s American work—his Cold War novels, as she calls them—is a welcome fresh perspective on a neglected topic. In situating Isherwood’s ‘50s and ‘60s writing in the context of the rise of the paperback book, its distribution system, and readership, Harker recuperates a period of active gay and lesbian publishing. The history she uncovers of queer ... Read more

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