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Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature.
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1992
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Queer Of Color CritiqueLiterary TheoryFirst-person NarrativeHomosexualityPolitical LiteratureQueer TheoryGay Self-representationQueer StudyAlain LockeEarly American LiteratureLarry KramerAmerican LiteratureSocial SciencesSexual CulturesComparative LiteratureLiterary CriticismChildren's LiteratureGender StudiesAfrican American LiteratureYa LiteratureLanguage StudiesWorld LiteraturesLiterary StudyCreative WritingNative American ThemesImaginative WritingPoeticsAmerican ProseLiterary HistorySexuality StudiesContemporary FictionPlaywritingSexual Orientation
Bergman analyzes the writings of such famous American writers as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, F. O. Matthiessen, and Larry Kramer. He considers the entire range of literature, including poetry and drama, and gives attention to African or Native American themes in the work of Alain Locke, Countee Cullen, Francis Grierson, David Plante and others.