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Film --- Thematology --- French literature --- Homosexuality and literature --- History and criticism --- Homosexuality in literature --- Gays' writings, French --- Homosexuality and motion pictures --- Motion pictures, French --- Homosexuality in literature.

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Synthesizes topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West. This work examines subjects ranging from the use of frontier rhetoric in Japanese American internment camp narratives to the emergence of agricultural tourism in the New West to the application of geographer J B Jackson's theories to vernacular or abandoned western landscapes.

Multiculturalism in literature. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Ecology in literature. --- Popular culture in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature.

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English literature --- Female friendship in literature. --- Friendship in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Lesbianism in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Male friendship in literature. --- History and criticism.

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American literature --- Feminism in literature --- Homosexuality in literature --- Lesbianism in literature --- Liberation theology in literature --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Mexican Americans --- Spirituality in literature --- Mexican American authors --- History and criticism --- Ethnic identity

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At the Periphery of the Center is the first comparison of two of France’s most important twentieth-century authors, Julien Green and Marguerite Yourcenar. It examines textual elements in their plays and novels to draw conclusions about the ways that they represent homosexuality in their texts. Both Yourcenar and Green turned to drama to explore aspects of same-sex desire that they felt unable to express in their prose. The analysis of their plays shows that an emphasis on dialogue and action makes drama a particularly appropriate genre for writing about homosexuality because it affords an author distance and therefore protection from the “proclivities” of his characters. The chapters on the novel show, by contrast, how prose fiction allows an author to explain a character's sexuality with a degree of subtlety difficult to achieve in theatre. Variations in narration and paratext allow writers to avoid condemning discourses and to find an original means of expression instead. At the Periphery brings a new, textually centered approach to Green’s and Yourcenar’s works that is unlike the psychological analyses that often typify queer readings. It will be of great interest to scholars of twentieth-century French literature and of Gender Studies. The book will also appeal to non-academic readers, however, since it is about two French authors who were also American citizens and who wrote about US history and contemporary culture.

French literature --- Homosexuality in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Yourcenar, Marguerite, --- Yourcenar, Marguerite --- Green, Julien, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Green, Julien --- Sex in literature. --- Crayencour, Marguerite de --- I︠U︡rsenar, Margerit --- Юрсенар, Маргерит --- Yourcenar, M. --- Yourcenar, Marg --- Yursenar, Margereṭ --- Yūrsn̲ār, Mārkerit --- יורסנאר, מרגרט --- Jursenar, Margerit --- Green, Julian --- Grin, Z'ulyen --- Irland, David, --- Green, Julian Hartridge --- Delaporte, Théophile