Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture
Bad Beatitudes
From Allen Ginsberg's 'angel-headed hipsters' to angelic outlaws in Essex Hemphill's Conditions, angelic imagery is pervasive in queer American art and culture. This book examines how the period after 1945 expanded a unique mixture of sacred and profane angelic imagery in American literature and culture to fashion queer characters, primarily gay men, as embodiments of 'bad beatitudes'. Deutsch explores how authors across diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, including John Rechy, Richard Bruce Nugent, Allen Ginsberg, and Rabih Alameddine, sought to find the sacred in the profane and the profane in the sacred. Exploring how these writers…
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- ISBN: 978-1-350-19896-8
- EAN: 9781350198968
- Produktnummer: 36764943
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'659 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 bw illus
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David Deutsch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA.
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