Maggie McKinley, Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75, and Scott Herring, ed., The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature

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Maggie McKinley, Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75. Scott Herring, ed., The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. ISBN: 9781628924817 New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9781107646186 Elena Tzelepis The two books under review are examples of American literary criticism’s continued concern with non-normative gender and sexual identities and identifications in relation to race, ethnicity and nat...