Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Synchronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Part II Diachronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Queer Genre
- 17 Queer Historical Poetics and Queer Formalism
- 18 Queer Mythology in American Poetry, 1855–1913
- 19 Funny Emotions
- 20 Queer American Poetry Now
- 21 Queer American Drama
- 22 The Gay Genre
- 23 The Oneiric Golden Age of Gay and Lesbian Pulp
- 24 Queering Desire in American Science Fiction
- 25 Queering Comics Histories
- 26 LGBT Bestsellers
- 27 History Touches Us Everywhere
- Race and the Politics of Queer and Trans Representation
- Space and the Regional Imaginary of Queer Literature
- Part III Queer Methods
- Index
23 - The Oneiric Golden Age of Gay and Lesbian Pulp
from Queer Genre
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2024
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Synchronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Part II Diachronic Histories of American Sexuality
- Queer Genre
- 17 Queer Historical Poetics and Queer Formalism
- 18 Queer Mythology in American Poetry, 1855–1913
- 19 Funny Emotions
- 20 Queer American Poetry Now
- 21 Queer American Drama
- 22 The Gay Genre
- 23 The Oneiric Golden Age of Gay and Lesbian Pulp
- 24 Queering Desire in American Science Fiction
- 25 Queering Comics Histories
- 26 LGBT Bestsellers
- 27 History Touches Us Everywhere
- Race and the Politics of Queer and Trans Representation
- Space and the Regional Imaginary of Queer Literature
- Part III Queer Methods
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the print cultural history of queer pulp fiction in the 1950s, paying special attention to obscenity challenges as well as to the cultural afterlives of pulps in contemporary queer culture.
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- The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature , pp. 413 - 425Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024