The damned don't cry - they just disappear : the life and works of Harry Hervey / Harlan Greene
- Author:
- Greene, Harlan
- Additional Titles:
- Life and works of Harry Hervey
- Published:
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Of Mosques and Main Street -- 2.Condemn Me Not -- 3.The Blue Road of Romance -- 4.Born to Revel -- 5.The Gay Sarong -- 6.Not Entirely Platonic -- 7.Cobra, Congai, and Charleston -- 8.Devil Dancer of the Middle Sex -- 9.Red Ending -- 10.The Mother of Inversion -- 11.The Hollywood Express -- 12.Passport to Hell -- 13.The Damned Don't Cry -- 14.The Benison of Work ... and a Little Beauty -- 15.Promised to Eternity -- 16.A Singular Elation -- 17.Aftermath.
- Summary:
- "In The Damned Don't Cry -- They Just Disappear, literary historian and Lamba Award--winning novelist Harlan Greene has created a portrait of a nearly forgotten Southern writer, unearthing information from archives, rare books, film libraries, and small-town newspapers. Greene brings Harry Hervey (1900-1951) to life and explicates his works to reveal him as a hardworking writer and master of many genres, bravely unwilling to conform to conventional values. As Greene illustrates, Hervey's novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and film scripts contain complex mixtures of history and thinly disguised homoerotic situations and themes. They blend local color, naturalism, melodrama, and psychological and sexual truths that provide a view of the circles in which he moved. Living openly with his male lover in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, Hervey set novels in these cities that scandalized the locals and critics as well. He challenged the sexual mores of his day, sometimes subtly and at other times brazenly presenting texts that told one story to gay male readers, while still courting a mainstream audience. His novels and nonfiction may have been coded and thus escaped detection in their day, but twenty-first-century readers can decipher them easily" --
- Subject(s):
- Hervey, Harry, 1900-1951
- 1900-1999
- Gay authors—United States—20th century—Biography
- Authors, American—20th century—Biography
- Gays—United States—Biography
- Gays—Southern States—History—20th century
- Gays in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian
- Authors, American
- Gay authors
- Gays
- Literature
- Asia—In literature
- Asia
- Southern States
- United States
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781611178111 hardcover
1611178118 hardcover - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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