American Literary Celebrity and Contemporary Identity

美国文学名人与当代身份

• 批准号: DP150102562
• 负责人: A/Prof Guy Davidson
• 金额: $ 8.2万
• 依托单位: University of Wollongong
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2019-12-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150102562
• 关键词: American; Literary; Celebrity; Contemporary; Identity

In post-war America, the writers James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams were all assumed to be homosexual in the days before this became relatively "safe," yet they all attained celebrity status. This project aims to examine the effect that the presence of these literary celebrities had on the formation of contemporary gay identity. In doing so, the project aims to demonstrate the inadequacy of the analytic categories of the open secret and the closet, conventionally used in sexuality studies to explain gay identity in the post-war years before gay liberation. The project endeavours to contribute to our understanding of two vital and interrelated aspects of contemporary society: celebrity culture and gay identity.

在战后的美国，作家詹姆斯·鲍德温（James Baldwin）、杜鲁门·卡波特（Truman Capote）、戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal）和田纳西·威廉姆斯（Tennessee Williams）在同性恋变得相对“安全”之前的日子里都被认为是同性恋，但他们都获得了名人地位。这个项目旨在研究这些文学名人的存在对当代同性恋身份形成的影响。在这样做的过程中，该项目旨在证明公开秘密和壁橱的分析类别的不足，传统上用于性研究，以解释同性恋解放前的战后几年的同性恋身份。该项目致力于促进我们对当代社会两个重要且相互关联的方面的理解：名人文化和同性恋身份。