EbookBell.com

Most ebook files are in PDF format, so you can easily read them using various software such as Foxit Reader or directly on the Google Chrome browser.
Some ebook files are released by publishers in other formats such as .awz, .mobi, .epub, .fb2, etc. You may need to install specific software to read these formats on mobile/PC, such as Calibre.

Please read the tutorial at this link: https://ebookbell.com/faq

We offer FREE conversion to the popular formats you request; however, this may take some time. Therefore, right after payment, please email us, and we will try to provide the service as quickly as possible.

For some exceptional file formats or broken links (if any), please refrain from opening any disputes. Instead, email us first, and we will try to assist within a maximum of 6 hours.

EbookBell Team

So Famous And So Gay The Fabulous Potency Of Truman Capote And Gertrude Stein Solomon

Name: So Famous And So Gay The Fabulous Potency Of Truman Capote And Gertrude Stein Solomon
SKU: BELL-11839574
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.7 (96 reviews)

SKU: BELL-11839574

$ 31.00 ~~$ 45.00~~ (-31%)

4.7

96 reviews

So Famous And So Gay The Fabulous Potency Of Truman Capote And Gertrude Stein Solomon instant download after payment.

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 11.92 MB

Author: Solomon, Jeff

ISBN: 9780816696796, 9780816696826, 9781452915661, 9781452915678, 0816696799, 0816696829, 1452915660, 1452915679

Language: English

Year: 2017

Product desciption

So Famous And So Gay The Fabulous Potency Of Truman Capote And Gertrude Stein Solomon by Solomon, Jeff 9780816696796, 9780816696826, 9781452915661, 9781452915678, 0816696799, 0816696829, 1452915660, 1452915679 instant download after payment.

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) and Truman Capote (1924–1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and exclusively gay, built their outsize reputations on works that directly featured homosexuality and a queer aesthetic. How did these writers become mass-market celebrities while other gay public figures were closeted or censored? And what did their fame mean for queer writers and readers, and for the culture in general? Jeff Solomon explores these questions in So Famous and So Gay.
Celebrating lesbian partnership, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was published in 1933 and rocketed Stein, the Jewish lesbian intellectual avant-garde American expatriate, to international stardom and a mass-market readership. Fifteen years later, when Capote published Other Voices, Other Rooms, a novel of explicit homosexual sex and love, his fame itself became famous. Through original archival research, Solomon traces the construction and impact of the writers’ public personae from a gay-affirmative perspective. He historically situates author photos, celebrity gossip, and other ephemera to explain how Stein and Capote expressed homosexuality and negotiated homophobia through the fleeting depiction of what could not be directly written—maneuvers that other gay writers such as Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and James Baldwin could not manage at the time. Finally So Famous and So Gay reveals what Capote’s and Stein’s debuts, Other Voices, Other Rooms and Three Lives, held for queer readers in terms of gay identity and psychology—and for gay authors who wrote in their wake.