Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
Autor Ralf Webben Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2025
'Remarkable... entertaining... deft... moving... refreshing'
Daily Telegraph
'A richly rewarding account of a resonant cultural moment'
Guardian
'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'
Raymond Antrobus, author of The Perseverance
In 1960, James Baldwin decisively diagnosed the troubled state of American society as a 'failure of the masculine sensibility'.
Strange Relations explores this mid-century crisis through the lives and works of four bisexual writers: Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, John Cheever, and James Baldwin.
In a mesmerising blend of biography and cultural criticism, Ralf Webb examines how these writers challenged the damaging restrictions of contemporary gender and sexuality, and how, through both their art and relationships, they sought a transformative new masculinity - one grounded in fluidity, love and intimacy.
'Webb's writing is of a quality rarely seen, and his book returns you to the world slightly changed, equipped with another angle of vision on the quiddity of man'
Diarmuid Hester, author of Nothing Ever Just Disappears
'Impeccably well researched and hugely enjoyable'
Nicole Flattery, author of Nothing Special
'Wise, hopeful, and exquisitely written'
Will Tosh, author of Straight Acting
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399713252
ISBN-10: 1399713256
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399713256
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Remarkable . . . True poet-scholars, whose creative and critical concerns intimately connect, are rare indeed: Webb is slowly and carefully establishing an interesting niche for himself among rather distinguished company. He's a writer who can give expression to crisis and confusion, but who can also offer careful analysis and critique of the causes and consequences of our human pain . . . A thoroughly reasonable and entertaining book, with . . . convincing and moving portraits of the authors [and] clear, determined, detailed readings . . . The sheer confidence and energy of the assessments and pronouncements is refreshing
Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body. Webb has skilfully blended narratives of maleness, queer desire and gender norms with mid-century American cultural critiques. If you're a fan of Judith Butler, Hilton Als, Mark Doty, you will love Webb's Strange Relations
A richly rewarding account of a resonant cultural moment
A compassionate, imaginative, inquisitive book about men, how American authors like Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and James Baldwin wrote about masculinity, and how they imagined relationships between men-and women. Webb's writing is of a quality rarely seen, and his book returns you to the world slightly changed, equipped with another angle of vision on the quiddity of man
Even-handed and sensitive
I loved Strange Relations for its exquisite prose, its insights, its novelistic flair. There is palpable urgency to this book as it questions, reimagines and contextualises the link between sexuality, gender and identity; and between fiction and autobiography. I returned to these pages each night in awe and with the feeling that I had encountered something new and necessary and exciting
Ralf Webb delivers a captivating study of the writers who fought back against the repressive models of post-war masculinity, and dared to imagine a freer, queerer future. Strange Relations is wise, humane, hopeful, and exquisitely written. A moving and empowering book.
Strange Relations achieves the rare holy trinity for a nonfiction book: its exploration of the mutability of masculinity is rigorously researched, full of humane and original insights, and delivered in the kind of stylish and distinctive prose that could only have been written by an essayist who is also a poet.
'Ralf Webb's Strange Relations is a beguiling portrait of the singular artists who have challenged and shaped our ideas of sexuality and masculinity. Impeccably well researched and hugely enjoyable.
Earnest and often charming . . . close readings, bringing together sensitively the authors' lives and works, are the most enjoyable and illuminating aspects of Strange Relations
Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body. Webb has skilfully blended narratives of maleness, queer desire and gender norms with mid-century American cultural critiques. If you're a fan of Judith Butler, Hilton Als, Mark Doty, you will love Webb's Strange Relations
A richly rewarding account of a resonant cultural moment
A compassionate, imaginative, inquisitive book about men, how American authors like Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and James Baldwin wrote about masculinity, and how they imagined relationships between men-and women. Webb's writing is of a quality rarely seen, and his book returns you to the world slightly changed, equipped with another angle of vision on the quiddity of man
Even-handed and sensitive
I loved Strange Relations for its exquisite prose, its insights, its novelistic flair. There is palpable urgency to this book as it questions, reimagines and contextualises the link between sexuality, gender and identity; and between fiction and autobiography. I returned to these pages each night in awe and with the feeling that I had encountered something new and necessary and exciting
Ralf Webb delivers a captivating study of the writers who fought back against the repressive models of post-war masculinity, and dared to imagine a freer, queerer future. Strange Relations is wise, humane, hopeful, and exquisitely written. A moving and empowering book.
Strange Relations achieves the rare holy trinity for a nonfiction book: its exploration of the mutability of masculinity is rigorously researched, full of humane and original insights, and delivered in the kind of stylish and distinctive prose that could only have been written by an essayist who is also a poet.
'Ralf Webb's Strange Relations is a beguiling portrait of the singular artists who have challenged and shaped our ideas of sexuality and masculinity. Impeccably well researched and hugely enjoyable.
Earnest and often charming . . . close readings, bringing together sensitively the authors' lives and works, are the most enjoyable and illuminating aspects of Strange Relations