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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )In January of 1928, Louis Aragon, co-founder of the Surrealist movement, participated in a two-day conference on sexuality. Others in attendance included André Breton, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, and Philippe...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Jacinto Benavente emerged from the upper strata of twentieth- century Spanish society to be both its quintessential member and greatest critic. Primarily focusing on drama to express his motivations, Benavente developed...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Acknowledged as the most important figure in Italian literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some critics argue that D'Annunzio's work and life reflect the influence of Aestheticism and...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Marina Tsvetaeva is considered today to be one of the four great Russian poets of this century, along with her contemporaries Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Boris Pasternak. Her prolific career as a poet and writer...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )David Malouf began his literary career as a poet, but established himself as a novelist with the publication of Johnno in 1975. Born of Lebanese and English parents in Brisbane, Australia, he has spent significant...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )When Alice Walker was eight years old, one of her brothers shot her in the eye with a BB gun. This event was seminal to Walker's perceptions of the world, as her blinding became metaphoric for other events and...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )For the student of gay and lesbian literature, examining the work of William Inge is a fascinating, if ultimately frustrating, experience. In his major plays, Inge writes eloquently of the human condition, particularly...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Samuel R. Delany's life and writings bridge several chasms in contemporary culture: that between African and white America; that between heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual; and that between science, science fiction,...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Lytton Strachey's importance as a gay writer does not lie in his explicit treatment of homosexuality. Rather, it lies in the ethos and tone of his work that are crucially informed by his position as a gay...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Muriel Rukeyser was a third generation Ashkanazi Jew born on Riverside Drive in Manhattan in 1913, the year before the start of World War I. Her parents were upwardly mobile and middle-class. Her mother was a bookkeeper...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Arenas' internationally acclaimed surrealistic novels were considered counter-revolutionary and insurrectionary to the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro. He was severely persecuted in his native country due to his...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )The contradictions between the life and the legend of Rupert Brooke are perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the man. His fame during his lifetime was based not so much upon his literary achievements as upon his...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Anna Akhmatova holds a legendary place among Russian poets. Writing for over half a century between 1910 and 1966 on a diverse range of subjects, Akhmatova endured the Stalinist purges, repeated sanctions against her...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )June Jordan's writing celebrates the revolutionary power of love, as Adrienne Rich pointed out in the foreword to Haruko/Love Poems. In the case of the haruko poems, Jordan claims "the love of a woman for a woman as a...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )The Harlem Renaissance was a time of great creativity for African Americans. W. E. B. DuBois and others hoped that the "talented tenth" of African Americans would be able to prove the intelligence and the creativity of...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Probably the most well-known poet in the German language and certainly one of the premiere poets of the twentieth century in any language, Rainer Maria Rilke has left behind a body of work that has become synonymous with...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Of the hundreds of scholarly essays and book-length studies of Sherwood Anderson's work, only a relative few focus on Anderson's interest in the rich complexity of human sexuality. Of those that do, most take a rather...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )"The art of losing isn't hard to master," wrote Elizabeth Bishop in the villanelle "One Art," which appeared in her last book, Geography III (1976). The losses the poem documents range from familiar objects (keys, watch)...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Juan Goytisolo's corpus—novels, short stories, travel narratives, literary criticism—places him at the vanguard of twentieth-century Spanish literature. Like other "new wave" writers of his generation, Goytisolo grew up...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Hélène Cixous's contributions to what American academic culture categorizes as "gay and lesbian literature" are substantial. Of the hundreds of academic articles referring to her work, a sizable number interrogate gender...