Abstract
This essay argues for the prominence of angelic figures in queer post-WWII American literature. John Rechy in particular provides a useful starting point for understanding this proliferation, as his formulation of angelic outlaws signals the profane sublimity of queer rebels who consciously revise religious, social, and political repressions and censures in order to establish a new, elevated rhetoric to contextualize more humanistic and sexually inclusive forms of salvation.
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