Gay American autobiography: writings from Whitman to Sedaris / edited by David Bergman.
Bergman, David, 1950-
2009
PS508.G39 G39 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Gay American autobiography: writings from Whitman to Sedaris / edited by David Bergman.
ISBN 9780299230449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0299230449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xx, 403 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number PS508.G39 G39 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 920.0086/64 B
Summary From the Publisher: In the first anthology to survey the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman to the present, Gay American Autobiography draws excerpts from letters, journals, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies to provide examples of the best life writing over the last century and a half. Volume editor David Bergman guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation of gay writers since the nineteenth century, including a diverse array of American men of African, European, Jewish, Asian, and Latino heritage. Documenting a range of life experiences that encompass tattoo artists and academics, composers and drag queens, hustlers and clerks, it contains accounts of turn-of-the-century transvestites, gay rights activists, men battling AIDS, and soldiers attempting to come out in the army. Each selection provides important insight on the wide spectrum of ways gay men have defined and lived their lives, highlighting how self-awareness changes an author's experience. The volume includes an introduction by Bergman and headnotes for each of the nearly forty entries. Bringing many out-of-print and hard-to-find works to new readers, this challenging and comprehensive anthology chronicles American gay history and life struggles over the course of the past 150 years.
Bibliography, etc. Note "Selected gay autobiographies and life writings": p. [401]-403.
Added Author Bergman, David, 1950-
Series Living out.
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Introduction
From his journals / Henry David Thoreau
From his letters to Peter Doyle / Walt Whitman
From his letters to Hendrick Andersen / Henry James
Chumming with a Savage: Kana-ana / Charles Warren Stoddard
Love's Dungeon Flower / Alexander Berkman
Fleeing from Self (25 to 27) / Claude Hartland
From Autobiography of an Androgyne / Earl Lind
From Rat and the Devil / Russell Cheney F O Matthiessen
From Jeb and Dash /Jeb Alexander
From Continual Lessons / Glenway Wescott
Carlsen, Crane / Lincoln Kirstein
Magic Summer / Samuel M Steward
Spring and Summer 1956 / Paul Goodman
Priest and the Pagans / Tobias Scheebaum
From The New York Diary / Ned Rorem
Gay in the Army / Edward Field
From Minette: Recollections of a Part-Time Lady / Minette
Larry / Martin Duberman
From A Day and a Night at the Baths / Michael Rumaker
Voice Over: Four Factions of the Rear Guard / John Rechy
From Young Man from the Provinces / Alan Helms
From Under the Rainbow / Arnie Kantrowitz
Writing Gay / Edmund White
From The Motion of Light in Water / Samuel R Delany
My Harvard / Andrew Holleran
Puck / Paul Monette
Last Days of Reinaldo Arenas: A Sadness as Deep as the Sea / Jaime Manrique
Cherry / Kevin Killian
End of Being Known / Michael Klein
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline / David Wojnarowicz
On the Drip / David B Feinberg
Hejira / David Sedaris
Ceremonies / Essex Hemphill
Aryan Boy / Wayne Koestenbaum
Chivalry / Gil Cuadros
Judas Boogied until His Slippers Wept / Justin Chin
Selected gay autobiographies and life writings.

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