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Book

Nothing ever just disappears : seven hidden queer histories

Call Number

  • 306.76 H588 (CEN)

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Edition

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

Publication Information

New York : Pegasus Books, 2024.

Physical Description

358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Nothing Ever Just Disappears retraces the footsteps of some of the twentieth century's most remarkable queer writers and artists. Moving through their homes and haunts, it explores the deep connections between where they lived, who they were and the iconoclastic art and literature they created.In search of a new history of queer culture, Diarmuid Hester travels from Cambridge's ancient cloisters to the smoky clubs of Jazz Age Paris, through the bunkers of Nazi-occupied Jersey to the newly-liberated gaybourhoods of New York and beyond. Authoritative and not a little irreverent, Hester brings to life the bars and basements, homes and studios, cities and landscapes that shaped the sexual identities of such extraordinary figures as E. M. Forster, Josephine Baker, James Baldwin and Derek Jarman.A provocative argument for the centrality of space to any consideration of queer history, culture and politics, the book also attests to all that is lost when queer spaces are forgotten. Nothing Ever Just Disappears is the first trade book from an astonishing writer and thinker.Featuring Derek Jarman, E. M. Forster, London's queer suffragettes, Josephine Baker, Claude Cahun, James Baldwin, Jack Smith and Kevin Killian."--Goodreads.

Contents

  • Egress: E.M. Forster in Cambridge
  • Invert: London's queer suffragettes
  • Excess: Josephine Baker and Paris
  • Neither: Claude Cahun's Jersey
  • Exile: James Baldwin between America and France
  • Utopia: Jack Smith and New York
  • Niche: Kevin Killian's San Francisco
  • Epilogue: Sanctuary.

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