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Promiscuous sexuality remains a central source of cultural fear and fascination, as seen in the resurgence of heated debates within American gay culture on its place in the era of AIDS. Cruising Culture provides the first extensive critical examination of competing understandings and experiences of promiscuity, both in post-war American gay culture and in American culture more broadly.In this original and provocative book, Ben Gove unpicks the root assumptions and contradictions which contribute to dominant punitive notions of promiscuous sex and desire. He challenges normative dichotomies between 'good' monogamous sexualities and 'bad' promiscuous sexualities by illustrating the inherent promiscuousness of all sexual desire, regardless of consciously expressed attitudes to sexual practice. The reader is guided through the maze of conflicting attitudes towards promiscuity in American gay culture with innovative readings of texts by influential, but hitherto critically neglected, authors such as Andrew Holleran, Larry Kramer, John Rechy, Edmund White and David Wojnarowicz. The book also draws on numerous critical and historical perspectives to represent an intricate picture of promiscuous sexual life in contemporary America.Cruising Culture will be essential reading for gay/elesbian/queer studies, gender studies and American studies, and for anyone else seeking a thorough discussion of the complex debates surrounding promiscuity.

Gay men --- Cruising (Sexual behavior) --- Gays in literature --- Promiscuity --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Gay & Lesbian Studies --- Promiscuous behavior --- Sex --- Sex cruising --- Sexual behavior --- Urban cruising (Sexual behavior) --- Gay people in literature --- Gay people in literature. --- Promiscuity.

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Homosexuality in literature. --- Young adult literature --- Gays in literature. --- Lesbians in literature. --- Study and teaching. --- Gay people in literature.

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The Avowal of Difference explores the potentialities and limitations that queer theory offers in the context of Latino American texts and subjects. Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui contrasts Latino American sexual genealogies with the Anglo-European "coming out" narrative—and interrogates the centrality of the "coming out" story as the regulating metaphor for gay, lesbian, or queer identities. In its place, the book looks at other strategies—from silence to circumlocution, from disavowal to indifference—to theorize queer subject formation in a Latino American cultural context. The analysis of texts by José Lezama Lima, Luis Zapata, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Junot Díaz, and others offers a comparative approach to understanding how queer sexualities are shaped and written in other cultural contexts.

Spanish American fiction --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Gays in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- Spanish-American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Gay people in literature.

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Gays in literature. --- Homosexuality and literature --- American fiction --- Pulp literature, American --- Gays' writings, American --- Literature and homosexuality --- Literature --- American pulp literature --- American literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Gay people's writings, American --- Gay people in literature.

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