TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harker,Jaime
TI  - Middlebrow queer: Christopher Isherwood in America 
SN  - 9780816679140 (pbk.)
AV  - PR6017 .S5 Z675 2013
U1  - 823/.912 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Isherwood, Christopher,
KW  - Homosexuality in literature
KW  - Gay culture in literature
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Identity
KW  - Homosexuality and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Literature and society
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index; Introduction: Christopher and his readers -- Isherwood's American incarnation and the gay protest novel -- "Too queer to be Quaker": gay protest and camp -- "Fagtrash": pulp paperbacks and Cold War queer readers -- Sixties' literature and the ascension of camp middlebrow -- "A delicious purgatory": sex and "salvation" -- Secret agents and gay identity: Cold War queerness -- Spiritual trash: Hindus, homos, and gay pulp -- Christopher Isherwood, gay liberation, and the question of style
N2  - Jaime Harker shows that Christopher Isherwood refashioned himself as an American writer following his emigration from England by immersing himself in the gay reading, writing, and publishing communities in Cold War America. Weaving together biography, history, and literary criticism, this book traces the continuous evolution of Isherwood's simultaneously queer and American postwar authorial identity
ER  -