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By Jacqueline O'Connor

Gender and cultural reports readings of Tennessee Williams’s paintings have supplied varied views on his advanced representations of sexuality, no matter if of himself as an brazenly homosexual guy, or of his characters, a lot of whom narrate or dramatize sexual attitudes or habit that move heteronormative limitations of the mid-century interval. numerous of those experiences have located Williams and his paintings amid the general public tensions in American lifestyles over approximately 4 a long time, from 1940–1980, as notions of equality and freedom of selection challenged prejudice and repression in legislations and in society. thus far, despite the fact that, neither Williams’s homosexuality nor his continual representations of sexual transgressions were tested as criminal issues that challenged the guideline of law.

Directed via felony heritage and expert by means of a number of strands of Williams’s experiences feedback, textual, and cultural, this ebook explores the interaction of choose themes outlined and debated in law’s texts with those self same themes in Williams’s own and inventive texts. by way of tracing the imprecise and the obvious representations of homosexuality, particularly, and various sexualities extra more often than not, via chosen tales and performs, the publication charts the intersections among Williams’s literature and the legislation that ruled the interval. His ingenious works, backlit by means of his own records and old and felony files from the interval, underscore his preoccupation with depictions of various sexualities all through his profession. His use of criminal language and its assorted results on his texts display his work’s a number of and complicated intersection with significant twentieth-century issues, together with major felony and cultural dialogues approximately identification formation, intimacy, privateness, and difference.

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