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Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures

Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures

Hardcover

Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Literary CriticismGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0230340490
ISBN13: 9780230340497
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Feb 10 2012
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it, Guy Davidson argues that while these subcultures are necessarily commodified, they also provide means of subversively negotiating aspects of life under capitalism.

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