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1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Publishing queer/queer publishing -- 'A gay presence' : publication and revision in John Weiner's Behind the state capitol / David Grundy -- Derek Jarman's queer histories : Derek Jarman's Caravaggio / Alexandra Parsons -- Queer art of Artists' books : Hazard Press / Jeremy Dixon -- Teleny : a tale of two cities / Will Visconti -- Midwestern farmers' daughters : heartland values and cloaked resistance in the novels of Valerie Taylor / Jennifer Dentel -- Saving Gay's the Word : the campaign to protect a bookshop and the right to import queer literature / Graham McKerrow -- Titles seized by HM Customs & Excise from Gay's the Word in three separate actions between April and October 1984, as recorded in Capital gay, November 1984. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. Chronicling the gay struggle for acceptance and liberation, this book demonstrates how the fight for representation was often waged secretly between the covers of books at a time when public spaces for queer identities were limited. The chapters provide an array of voices and histories from the famous, Derek Jarman and Oscar Wilde, to the lesser-known and underappreciated John Wieners and Valerie Taylor. It includes first-hand accounts of seminal moments in queer history, including the birth of Hazard Press and the Defend Gay's the Word Bookshop campaign in the 1980s. The book demonstrates how the queer community could be brought together through shared literature. The works discussed show the imaginative and radical ways in which queer texts have fought against censorship and repression and could be used as a tool for political organisation and production. A fascinating and poignant analysis of some key historic moments for queer lib in publishing and book history, this is an essential read for those interested in how LGBTQ people throughout modernity have used literature as an important forum for self-expression and self-actualisation when spaces and sites for queer expression were taboo. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Homosexuality in literature.
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Homosexuality in literature. |
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Homosexuality and literature.
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Homosexuality and literature. |
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Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects -- History.
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Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects. |
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History. |
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Gay's the Word (Bookseller)
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kassir, Leila, editor.
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Espley, Richard, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Queer between the covers. London : Senate House Library, University of London Press, 2021 9781913002046 (OCoLC)1242740796 |
| ISBN |
9781913002053 (electronic book) |
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1913002055 (electronic book) |
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9781913002046 |
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1913002047 |
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9781913002060 (ePub ebook) |
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1913002063 |
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