A History of Gay Literature by Gregory Woods

A History of Gay Literature by Gregory Woods

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A full-scale account of male gay literature, across cultures, languages, and from ancient times to the present. It includes chapters on significant periods of cultural history, on major writers, and on common themes.

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A History of Gay Literature by Gregory Woods

A full-scale account of male gay literature, across cultures, languages, and from ancient times to the present. It includes chapters on significant periods of cultural history, on major writers, and on common themes.
Gregory Woods was born in Egypt in 1953, and brought up in Ghana. He is the author of Articulate Flesh: Male Homoeroticism and Modern Poetry (1987), A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998) and Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World (2016), all from Yale University Press. His essay collection The Myth of the Last Taboo: Queer Subcultural Studies was published by Trent Editions (2016). In addition to his six main poetry collections, all with Carcanet, chapbooks of his have been published by Shoestring Press and Sow's Ear Press.
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ISBN 13 9780300080889
ISBN 10 0300080883
Title A History of Gay Literature
Author Gregory Woods
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Yale University Press
Year published 1999-11-10
Number of pages 468
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