ISBN:
9781560239550
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (274 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version A Sea of Stories : The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures: A Festschrift for John P. DeCecco
DDC:
306.766
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Take a look at how narrative has shaped gay and lesbian cultureA Sea of Stories: The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures: A Festschrift for John P. De Cecco is an unforgettable collection of personal narratives that explores the historical, psychological, and sociological contexts of homosexuality in locations ranging from Nazi Germany to Colorado. Some of the prominent authors in this collection include David Bergman, Louis Crew, Diana Hume George, and Ruth Vanita. Scholars in gay and lesbian studies, political movements, cultural studies, and narratology, and anyone intere
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; A Sea of Stories; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Introduction: A Festschrift for John P. De Cecco: Sonya L. Jones; Apologia Pro Gay and Lesbian Studies: My "History and Memory" As Allegheny Student and Editor of the Journal of Homosexuality: John P. De Cecco; Section I: Strictly statistic? The social science narratives; Chapter 1. The Historical Evolution of Our Stories: The Persecution of Homosexuals During the Third Reich: J. Scott Van Der Meid; The Weimar Republic; Legislation Under the National Socialists; Persecution
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Life in the Concentration CampsLife After 1945; Chapter 2. Selling Gay Literature Before Stonewall: David Bergman; Chapter 3. Workplace Narratives: Using Coming-Out Stories to Enhance Workplace Diversity: Alan L. Ellis; The Development of Attitudes Regarding Sexuality; Attitude Change and the Role of Contact; The Use of Narrative As a Form of "Indirect Contact"; The Power of Narrative As a Catalyst for Change; Using Narrative in the Workplace; The Bottom Line: Coming Out, Productivity, and Job Satisfaction; To Tell or Not to Tell One's Story; The Current Literature on Workplace Issues
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Chapter 4. Queer Youth: Old Stories, New Stories: Glenda M. Russell, Janis S. Bohan and David LillyThe Context; The Study, The Story; Queer Narratives: The Stories Youth Live; Conclusion; Section II: The Big Tease-sexuality and Textuality; Chapter 5. "Melodramatic Maybe, It Seems to Me Now": Langston Hughes and the Underwritten Self: Laura Quinn; Chapter 6. In the Body's Ghetto: Walter Holland; Becoming Men: Gay Male Memoir and Autobiography from the 1940s Onward; Un-Becoming Men: The Postmodern Burlesque and Satire; The Many Kinds of Open: Six Lesbian Voices from the American 1970s
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Chapter 7. Embracing the Past by Retelling the Stories: Ruth VanitaGrowing Up Gay in India; "I'm an Excellent Animal": Cows, Motherhood, and Love Between Women; Section III: Creative Nonfiction-Love Stories, War Stories, Oral Stories, and Bibliographies; Chapter 8. Telling Lives: A Community Responds to AIDS: Jeanne Braham and Pamela Peterson; Chapter 9. Two Grooms: Revisited, Celebrated,and Remembered: Louie Crew, Reverend Canon Elizabeth Kaeton and Maxine Turner; Fort Valley, Georgia, 1976; After the Honeymoon; Two Grooms, Continued: The Renewal of Vows-February 2, 1999
Description / Table of Contents:
The Love That Need Not Speak Its Name: Sex and Sin in the SouthChapter 10. "I Would Prefer Not To"-Loving Karen: Diana Hume George; Chapter 11. A Professional Queer Remembers: Bibliography, Narrative, and the Saving Power of Memory: Raymond-Jean Frontain; Prelude One (Fall 1978); Prelude Two (Winter 1975); Prelude Three (Summer 1996); Memory As Survival; Narrative As Redemption; Bibliography As Narrative; Conclusion: Branches from a Green Tree; Section IV: Post-Stonewall and Postmodern-The "Real" Storytellers; Chapter 12. A Kiss in the Cane: Robert J. Balfour; Index;
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Description based upon print version of record
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