Download or read book Stripping Penguins Bare written by Michael Carson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homoplot written by Esther Saxey and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homoplot analyses the lesbian, gay and bisexual coming-out story in fiction and autobiography from the late 1960s to the present day. These stories are recognised as an invaluable record of lesbian, gay or bisexual life. However, this book illuminates their equally vital role as active tools in the arduous project of creating gay, lesbian and bisexual identities - constructing the identities they seem to describe. Homoplot shows how a popular twist of the plot, or a single common character trait, can be a powerful intervention into sexual politics. Approaching these texts with the tools of queer criticism, the book celebrates their success, but also illuminates their chief problem: how the need to create concrete sexual identities has often narrowed the range of queer experiences represented. Despite the ongoing popularity of coming-out stories, this is the first book-length study of the genre. Homoplot surveys hundreds of examples - including in-depth readings of authors such as Jeanette Winterson, Dorothy Allison, Rita Mae Brown, Oscar Moore, Paul Monette and Aaron Fricke - and provides an incisive account of the genre's defining features. The book is essential reading for anyone considering queer literature, or lesbian, gay and bisexual identity in the twentieth century and beyond. Researchers and students considering life history and autobiography will also benefit from its analysis of feminist and queer politics.
Download or read book Sucking Sherbet Lemons written by Michael Carson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you're fat, 14, obsessed with the Catholic Church, with Doing the Right Thing, with scones and sweets, with other boys and their private parts? Well, if you're Benson, you panic and flee, hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas, St Finbar's monastery is as full of temptation as the grammar school he'd left behind. The devils of desire find Benson once again and throw him back into the world from which he'd tried to escape. Returned to school, Benson is still trying to square the circle of his conflicting enthusiasms and desires. Can he be both gay and Catholic? Gay and Happy? Sucking Sherbet Lemons recounts the coming out experience of a gay man at a time when homosexual acts were illegal. Written in the late Eighties, in response to those who condemned gay men in the light of the AIDS epidemic – and instated Clause 28 to end discussion of the subject – this is a powerful and hilarious broadside aimed at the forces of intolerance, ignorance and fear. The times have changed, with legalization, and now even Civil Partnerships in Britain – but the difficulties, silence, bewilderment and embarrassment of ‘coming out' have not. Sucking Sherbet Lemons is a coming out novel for the ages. We are proud to re-release this gay classic to help, entertain – and console – a new generation, gay, straight, and all points in-between.
Download or read book Benson at Sixty written by Michael Carson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Benson, after a lifetime away, has made it home to Merseyside, his sherbet lemons all sucked down, his penguins all stripped bare. He's bought a house at the top of his town and filled it with souvenirs of a wandering life. With memories and a stern partner, a motorcycle test examiner, Ted, who tripped over him comatose one dark night on the prom, sensed that Mr Benson was at battle with the bottle, took him to a meeting of QA (Queer Alcoholics) and moved in. After a life spent in the shallows, Benson has come to the point when he must face reality.
Download or read book The Growth of Religious Diversity Vol 2 written by Gerald Parsons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extremely wide-ranging text with good prospects in the A level market
Download or read book The Naked Penguin written by Kym Lardner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print at last! ABC for Kids is delighted to announce the re-release of a range of best-selling, award-winning children's picture books. Including Children's Book Council winners and all-time favourites, no children's bookshelf is complete without these classic favourites. Twenty-four titles will be republished from 2010-11. Ages 3-5. Once there was a little penguin who was different from all the other penguins. All because he has no patch of white on his chest. Nobody will play with him and all the Arctic creatures are too busy to help him. But when the penguin decides to leave his home, he starts to notice that there are other animals who are different too. And the little penguin learns life's most important lesson ... Ages 3-5.
Download or read book Demolishing Babel written by Michael Carson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of S̀ucking sherbet lemons'. Each year the summer school offers a taste of England and Englishness to an assortment of eccentric students.
Download or read book The Literary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture written by Peter Childs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture is defined in its broadest sense and areas covered include architecture, consumerism, education, ethnicity and belief, fashion and design, film and cinema, gender and family, intellectual life, literature, media, music, performing arts, politics and society, recreation, sport, video and television, visual arts, and youth culture."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Month written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Knight of the Flaming Heart written by Michael Carson and published by Doubleday UK. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish folk hero Sir Roger Casement, executed in 1916 by the British as a traitor, receives a mixed reception from his native worshippers when he returns to his homeland.
Download or read book Cassell s Queer Companion written by William Stewart and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun and informative, this dictionary of some 2,500 entries catalogues landmarks of lesbian and gay history, languages, culture, and politics. Entries encompass key figures, places, films, plays, books, artists, events, concepts, and legislation, as well as slogans and obscure slang of many languages, and incorporate historical and multicultural material. Includes amusing bandw drawings. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Brothers in Arms written by Michael Carson and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the environs of Liverpool is a boys' Catholic school, and in that school is a fourteen-year-old Martin 'Wobbles' Benson-- an extraordinary adolescent fiercely unhappy with being fat and with the mysterious urges he explores during sessions of 'The Rude Club'-- fumbling encounters with two other boys that drive him to confession with dismal regularity. Benson, it seems, has two conflicting passions: the Holy Mother Church and other boys. So it's not unexpected that he chooses to enter St. Finbar's Seminary. But what happens there will be a stunning surprise to jolly good Benson. For here in a naughty and hilarious coming-of-age and coming-out story, written with a tone and intensity reminiscent of James Joyce's Dubliners, we witness a boy's own story-- of loneliness, choices, and sexual desire." -- Back cover.
Download or read book Yanking Up the Yo yo written by Michael Carson and published by Corgi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and final novel in the Benson saga, following on from Stripping Penguins Bare. Gay Martin Benson flies to the US to work as a counsellor at a boys' summer camp. When this job ends in unusual circumstances he returns to New York, but something other than a tree grows in Brooklyn.
Download or read book Kaapse bibliotekaris written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-
Download or read book The Minerva Book of Short Stories 6 written by Giles Gordon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 2456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
