TY  - BOOK
AU  - William Mark Poteet
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Gay Men in Modern Southern Literature
T2  - Ritual, Initiation, and the Construction of Masculinity
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102172
N2  - The concept of masculinity has had a profound influence on modern gay-written and gay-themed American Southern literature. Much of the fiction and drama of three important contemporary writers – Tennessee Williams, Charles Nelson, and Reynolds Price – has been shaped by the cultural dynamics of the Southern tradition of codified definitions and parameters of masculinity. This regional approach to literature also serves as critically protective, maintaining its focus in an effort to avoid essentializing experience and identity. Gay Men in Modern Southern Literature will be a valuable asset in the study of gender construction, literary theory, and modern American Southern writing.
KW  - Literary Theory, Modern Gay Theme, USA, Literatur, Homosexualität (Motiv), Geschichte 1947-1995, Literature, Drama, American Southern literature
LA  - English
ER  -