Queer Commodities : Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures
by
G. Davidson
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
ISBN-10
0230340490
ISBN-13
9780230340497
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 10th, 2012
Print length
190 Pages
Weight
354 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 13.40 x 1.70 cms
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Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it, Guy Davidson argues that while these subcultures are necessarily commodified, they also provide means of subversively negotiating aspects of life under capitalism.
Queer Commodities is the first study of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Drawing upon a diverse range of novels by Edmund White, Samuel Delany, Jane DeLynn, Lynn Breedlove, and Michelle Tea, Guy Davidson proposes that while gay and lesbian subcultures are necessarily commodified, they also provide means of subversively negotiating aspects of life under capitalism. This thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in long-running debates about the relations between gay and lesbian lives and commodification and reveals that commercial culture can liberate as it pacifies.
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