Queer commodities: contemporary US fiction, consumer capitalism, and gay and lesbian subcultures

Thefirst book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary USfiction.Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay andlesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it. GUY DAVIDSONLecturer of English Literature at the University of Wollongong, Australia. INDICE: Queer Commodities - Metropolitan Destinies: Edmund White's 'The Farewell Symphony ' - Utopia and Apocalypse in Samuel Delany's 'The Mad Man' - Bar and Dog Collar: Commodity, Subculture, and Narrative in Jane DeLynn - Revolt into Style: Subcultural and Literary Politics in Lynn Breedlove and MichelleTea -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-34049-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 02/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés