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Who's Yer Daddy?

Who's Yer Daddy?

Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners

by Jim Elledge and David Groff
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/12/2012

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Who's Yer Daddy? offers readers of gay male literature a keen and engaging journey. In this anthology, thirty-nine gay authors discuss individuals who have influenced them--their inspirational "daddies." The essayists include fiction writers, poets, and performance artists, both honored masters of contemporary literature and those just beginning to blaze their own trails. They find their artistic ancestry among not only literary icons--Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Frank O'Hara, James Baldwin, Edmund White--but also a roster of figures whose creative territories are startlingly wide and vital, from Botticelli to Bette Midler to Captain Kirk. Some writers chronicle an entire tribal council of mentors; others describe a transformative encounter with a particular individual, including teachers and friends whose guidance or example cracked open their artistic selves. Perhaps most moving are the handful of writers who answered the question literally, writing intimately of their own fathers and their literary inheritance. This rich volume presents intriguing insights into the contemporary gay literary aesthetic. Winner, LGBT Nonfiction Anthology, Lambda Literary Awards
ISBN:
9780299289409
9780299289409
Category:
Literary essays
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-12-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
311
Dimensions (mm):
210x140x33mm
Weight:
0.45kg

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