From Behan and Brorick to Ridgway and Tóibín, gay fictn is marked by s diversy
Contents:
- JOHN BOYNE'S THE HEART'S INVISIBLE FURI ABOUT A GAY MAN POST-WAR IRELAND
- TRACKG A HISTORY OF IMAGARY QUEER OR GAY MEN MORN IRISH LERATURE
JOHN BOYNE'S THE HEART'S INVISIBLE FURI ABOUT A GAY MAN POST-WAR IRELAND
* gay irish novel *
Quare Fellas: New Irish Gay Wrg.
TRACKG A HISTORY OF IMAGARY QUEER OR GAY MEN MORN IRISH LERATURE
Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad. "There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thg, " said the gay thor, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Le of Bety.
" Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay.
"Gvanni's Room is not really about homosexualy, " said Baldw a 1980 terview about queer life. Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy. SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like.