Outwrite : the speeches that shaped LGBTQ literary culture / edited by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2022Description: 316 pISBN:
  • 9781978828049
  • 9781978828032
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 815/.540992066 23/eng/20211129
LOC classification:
  • PN6122 .O98 2022
Other classification:
  • SOC012000 | SOC010000
Summary: "OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture gathers twenty-seven speeches from the eight national OutWrite conferences held between 1990 and 1999. OutWrite conferences played a crucial role in defining, expanding, and amplifying LGBTQ literary culture by bringing together LGBTQ writers of the 1990s in raucous events highlighted by keynote addresses, plenary sessions, and workshops coupled late nights of drinking, dancing, hook ups, and other forms of literary revelry. Speeches by Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Sarah Schulman, Essex Hemphill, Pat Califia, Dorothy Allison, Allan Gurganus, Chrystos, John Preston, Linda Villarosa, Edmund White, Tony Kushner, Samuel Delany, and many more are featured. The OutWrite conferences defined a new, queer literary canon and a movement of queer literary production. Now readers can revisit the speeches, arguments, and ideas from OutWrite as a touchstone for imagining what the future might hold for LGBTQ creative, literary, and artistic work"--Summary: "Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary lions who had made their reputations before the gay liberation movement-like Edward Albee, John Rechy, and Samuel R. Delany-could mingle, network, and flirt with a new generation of emerging queer writers like Tony Kushner, Alison Bechdel, and Sarah Schulman. This collection gives readers a taste of this fabulous moment in LGBTQ literary history with twenty-seven of the most memorable speeches from the OutWrite conference, including both keynote addresses and panel presentations. These talks are drawn from a diverse array of contributors, including Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Essex Hemphill, Patrick Califia, Dorothy Allison, Allan Gurganus, Chrystos, John Preston, Linda Villarosa, Edmund White, and many more. OutWrite offers readers a front-row seat to the passionate debates, nascent identity politics, and provocative ideas that helped animate queer intellectual and literary culture in the 1990s. Covering everything from racial representation to sexual politics, the still-relevant topics in these talks are sure to strike a chord with today's readers"--
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"OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture gathers twenty-seven speeches from the eight national OutWrite conferences held between 1990 and 1999. OutWrite conferences played a crucial role in defining, expanding, and amplifying LGBTQ literary culture by bringing together LGBTQ writers of the 1990s in raucous events highlighted by keynote addresses, plenary sessions, and workshops coupled late nights of drinking, dancing, hook ups, and other forms of literary revelry. Speeches by Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Sarah Schulman, Essex Hemphill, Pat Califia, Dorothy Allison, Allan Gurganus, Chrystos, John Preston, Linda Villarosa, Edmund White, Tony Kushner, Samuel Delany, and many more are featured. The OutWrite conferences defined a new, queer literary canon and a movement of queer literary production. Now readers can revisit the speeches, arguments, and ideas from OutWrite as a touchstone for imagining what the future might hold for LGBTQ creative, literary, and artistic work"--

"Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary lions who had made their reputations before the gay liberation movement-like Edward Albee, John Rechy, and Samuel R. Delany-could mingle, network, and flirt with a new generation of emerging queer writers like Tony Kushner, Alison Bechdel, and Sarah Schulman. This collection gives readers a taste of this fabulous moment in LGBTQ literary history with twenty-seven of the most memorable speeches from the OutWrite conference, including both keynote addresses and panel presentations. These talks are drawn from a diverse array of contributors, including Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Essex Hemphill, Patrick Califia, Dorothy Allison, Allan Gurganus, Chrystos, John Preston, Linda Villarosa, Edmund White, and many more. OutWrite offers readers a front-row seat to the passionate debates, nascent identity politics, and provocative ideas that helped animate queer intellectual and literary culture in the 1990s. Covering everything from racial representation to sexual politics, the still-relevant topics in these talks are sure to strike a chord with today's readers"--

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