Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer capitalism or heroically resistant to it, Guy Davidson argues that while these subcultures are necessarily commodified, they also provide means of subversively negotiating aspects of life under capitalism.

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“Guy Davidson’s Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subculture invites readers to re-evaluate literary representations of consumerism in recent fictional renderings of gay and lesbian subculture. … Davidson’s monograph will be of interest to scholars invested in the study of contemporary US fiction and consumer culture and recent literary representations of gay and lesbian subculture.” (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)

'Part of a recently renewed queer critical interest in capitalism and commodity cultures, Queer Commodities repurposes the concept of the subcultural in order to make clear that commodification is the ambivalent heart of our most cherished queer collectivities. Davidson is as punchy and compelling as the clutch of contemporary American queer fiction on which he draws.' - Annamarie Jagose, author of Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence

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GUY DAVIDSONLecturer of English Literature at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

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Book Title: Queer Commodities
Book Subtitle: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures
Authors: Guy Davidson
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137011244
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34049-7Published: 10 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34312-6Published: 10 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01124-4Published: 27 February 2012
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 190
Topics: Gender Studies, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology

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Front Matter