Gay lives
homosexual autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette
by Paul A. Robinson
Paul Robinson reads the memoirs of fourteen French, British, and American gay authors - including Jean Genet, Quentin Crisp, and Martin Duberman - through the prism of sexual identity: How did these men understand their homosexuality? Did they embrace or reject it? How did they express their often conflicted desires, in words ranging from the defiant and brutally frank to the ambiguous and abstract?
Robinson shows how all these authors struggled to cope with their sexuality and to reconcile it with prevailing conceptions of masculinity; he considers, through their writings, the choices each man made to accommodate himself to society's homophobia or live in protest against his oppression. And Robinson also discovers national patterns among them as he explores the English obsession with social class and the French association of homosexual attraction with geographical or racial difference.
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Gay lives: homosexual autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette
1999, University of Chicago Press
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Gay Autobiographies
October 1997, HarperCollins Publishers
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-412) and index.
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