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Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography
Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography,
Writing Desire
examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar and psychoanalyst Bertram J. Cohler has carefully selected a diverse group of ten men, including historians, activists, journalists, poets, performance artists, and bloggers, whose life writing evokes
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272 pages
Published
March 7th 2007
by University of Wisconsin Press
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At the same time I have been reading the new New York Review of Books and Bertram J. Cohler's Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007) study of queer desire. The title had originally attracted me but the book proved a major disappointment. Bertram has collected a group of biographies of some gay male authors situating their work in decades before and after Stonewall. However, there is little analysis of how desire operates in the work of the
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