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| #3872745 in eBooks | 2012-11-12 | 2012-11-12 | File type: PDF||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| The book queer theory should have made its ur-text...|By A Customer|Van Leer's book is everything we want from gay and lesbian (and queer) theory. Written in extremely lucid, beautifully crisp prose, Van Leer looks closely at how "the closet" could and did function in important ways in mid-20th c. America. He returns theory to the masses here--offering an analysis that is tru|About the Author|David Van Leer is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Emerson'sEpistemology: The Argument of the Esaays.
Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, gay culture - its humour, its icons, its desires - has been alive and sometimes even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van Leer puts forward here a series of readings that aim to identify what he calls the "queening" of America, a process by which "rhetorics and situations specific to homosexual culture are presented to a general readership as if culturally neutral." The Queening of America exami...
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