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Queer Commodities : Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures - G. Davidson

Queer Commodities

Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures

By: G. Davidson

Hardcover | 15 February 2012 | Edition Number 1

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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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"Guy Davidson's Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subculture invites readers to re-evaluate literary representations of consumerism in recent fictional renderings of gay and lesbian subculture. ... Davidson's monograph will be of interest to scholars invested in the study of contemporary US fiction and consumer culture and recent literary representations of gay and lesbian subculture." (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)


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