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. 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.
TRACKG A HISTORY OF IMAGARY QUEER OR GAY MEN MORN IRISH LERATURE
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. Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.
The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy.