Description: Categorically Famous : Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America, Hardcover by Davidson, Guy, ISBN 1503602354, ISBN-13 9781503602359, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers—James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal—in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1960s. While none of these writers "came out" in our current sense, all contributed, through their public images and their writing, to a greater openness toward homosexuality that was an important precondition of liberation. Their fame was crucial, for instance, to the growing conception of homosexuals as an oppressed minority rather than as individuals with a psychological problem.
Challenging scholarly orthodoxies, Guy Davidson urges us to rethink the usual opposition to liberation and to gay and lesbian visibility within queer studies as well as standard definitions of celebrity. The conventional ban on openly discussing the homosexuality of public figures meant that media reporting at the time did not focus on his protagonists private lives. At the same time, the careers of these "semi-visible" gay celebrities should be understood as a crucial halfway point between the era of the open secret and the present-day post-liberation era in which queer people, celebrities very much included, are enjoined to come out.
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Book Title: Categorically Famous : Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation i
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Name: Categorically Famous : Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Rich & Famous, Lgbt Studies / General, United States / 20th Century, Gender Studies, American / General, LGBT
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 18.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Guy Davidson
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Post*45 Ser.
Format: Hardcover
