ing assumptions of American studies as a scholarly discipline; the second evaluates the impact of literature - specifically the same-sex eroticism found in works by such writers as James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Bowles, and Ned Rorem - on the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.--Jacket."schema:workExample<http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780816638260>rdf:typej.0:Acid-free_paperrdf:typeschema:Pr