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ISBN: 1573668087 9781573668088 9781573661386 1573661384 Year: 2007 Publisher: Tuscaloosa FC2/University of Alabama Press
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"Alexandra Chasin’s remarkable stories employ forms as diverse as cryptograms (in 'ELENA=AGAIN') and sentence diagrams (in 'Toward a Grammar of Guilt') to display her interest in fiction as a form constituted by print on the page, every bit as much as poetry.In "They Come From Mars," the words are arrayed on the page like troops, embodying the xenophobic image of invading armies of undocumented immigrants that animates the narrative. One story incorporates personal ads ('Lynette, Your Uniqueness'), another is organized alphabetically ('2 Alphabets'), while another leaves sentences unfinished ('Composer and I'). A number of stories take metafictional turns, calling attention to the process of writing itself. The last piece in the collection plays with genre distinctions, including an index of first lines and a general index. Set in New York, New England, Paris, and Morocco, these tales are narrated by men and women, old and young, gay, straight, and bisexual; one narrator is not a person at all, but a work of art. Each of these deft, playful, and sometimes anarchic fictions is different from the others,yet all are the unmistakable offspring of the same wildly inventive imagination."- adapted from Amazon.com
Chasin, Alexandra --- Experimental fiction, American. --- American experimental fiction --- American fiction --- Chasin, Alexandra.
ISBN: 0312214499 0312239262 Year: 2000 Publisher: New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave,
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"In the 1990s gay and lesbian culture went mainstream, from Ellen's coming out episode to the push for same sex marriage. At the same time, the gay market has become one of the most sought after by advertisers like Bud Light, Absolut, Benson and Hedges, and even Ikea. But in its eagerness to be embraced by the mainstream, the gay movement's political identity has been whitewashed. Identity politics and identity based consumption tend to serve the interests of white, middle class men, and tend to underserve the interest of women, people of colour, and the poor. Alexandra Chasin's provocative indictment of the marketing of a sanitized queerness may set off a wave of controversy among all readers, gay and straight." --
Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Advertising. Public relations --- United States --- Gays. --- Gays in popular culture. --- Gay consumers. --- Lesbian consumers --- Gay liberation movement --- Gay culture --- Lesbian culture --- Consommateurs homosexuels --- Consommatrices lesbiennes --- United States of America --- Gay people. --- Gay people in popular culture.
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