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Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

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Writing, Motivation And Your Work In Progress: Catherine Cole On Writing Motivation And Finding Discipline In A Busy World, Catherine Cole Jan 2018

Writing, Motivation And Your Work In Progress: Catherine Cole On Writing Motivation And Finding Discipline In A Busy World, Catherine Cole

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

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The Gay Novel And The Gay World, Guy R. Davidson Jan 2018

The Gay Novel And The Gay World, Guy R. Davidson

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

In a recent review essay, J. Daniel Elam charts the emergence of “gay world literary fiction,” a subgenre of the category “world literature,” which over the last twenty years or so has become both a marketing strategy for publishers and a “disciplinary rallying point of literary criticism and the academic humanities.”1 While Elam’s essay is implicitly underpinned by the usual disciplinary understanding of world literature (fiction from potentially anywhere in the globe, translated into English, and studied comparatively), its focus is narrowed to the “gay world” within the planetary world—a putatively homogenous, transnational gay subculture enabled by digital connectivity and …