Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction Ruszczycky Steven
Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction Ruszczycky Steven Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and…
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Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction Ruszczycky Steven
Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life.Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is overdue for a book-length study of gay pornographic writing. Ranging over four decades, Ruszczycky draws on a large archive of pulp novels and short fiction, lifestyle magazines and journals, reviews, editorial statements, and correspondence. Steven Ruszczycky delivers with an impressively researched work on the ways gay pornographic writing emerged as a distinct genre in the 1960s and went on to shape queer male subjectivity well into the new millennium.
He puts these materials in conversation with works by a number of contemporary writers, including William Carney, Dennis Cooper, Samuel Delany, John