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Murder in the Closet - Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall (Paperback)
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Analysis of LGBTQ life before the Stonewall Riots of 1969
traditionally has been dominated by the powerful negative image of
the closet, the metaphorical space where that which was deemed
""queer"" was necessarily sheltered from hostile, heteronormative
public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in
crime fiction have tended to focus on works published in the freer
environment that has existed in the years since Stonewall, queer
material, so the traditional belief runs, having been, for the most
part, only negatively or obliquely presented in crime fiction of
the closet-bound pre-Stonewall era. This book tempers this
traditional view, offering readers a groundbreaking collection of
twenty-three essays, in which the authors investigate queer aspects
to crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted
Victorian era to the unbuttoned Swinging Sixties, on the very eve
of Stonewall. ""Murder will out,"" so the saying goes, and this is
true as well of queer material in pre-Stonewall crime fiction, if
one but follows the clues.
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