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- Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
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, André 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.
    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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-15
- Latin Moon Daddy
- pp. 25-31
- Making a Man Out of Me
- pp. 32-36
- Under the Influence
- pp. 37-43
- My Mother’s Grave Is Yellow
- pp. 44-51
- My Three Dads
- pp. 58-68
- Orpheus in Texas
- pp. 69-73
- “It does not have to be yours”
- pp. 74-76
- A Hidden Life (On Joy Williams)
- pp. 77-81
- How to Skin a Deer
- pp. 113-119
- The Little Girls with Penises
- pp. 120-125
- Beloved Jotoranos
- pp. 131-143
- Leaving Berlin
- pp. 144-152
- My Radical Dads
- pp. 161-169
- The Mentor I Never Met: Janet Frame
- pp. 170-177
- The Case of the Undone Novel
- pp. 178-186
- I Will Tell This Story the Way I Choose
- pp. 201-207
- Thom Gunn: A Memoir of Reading
- pp. 208-211
- Queering an Italian American Poetic Legacy
- pp. 212-220
- Vanity Fairey Interviews Writer Noël Alumit
- pp. 221-226
- The Four of Them
- pp. 227-234
- The World Is Full of Orphans
- pp. 251-255
- The Seismology of Love and Letters
- pp. 256-265
- Botticelli Boy
- pp. 266-278
- Miss Thing
- pp. 279-283
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at My Father
- pp. 284-292
- Contributors
- pp. 293-300
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299289430
Related ISBN(s)
9780299289409
MARC Record
OCLC
834143990
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No