Perhaps some substitute for salvation: Vidal, Rechy and the Homosexual Novel in the Counterculture

Abstract

This project examines the countercultural production associated with homosexuality and the gay liberation movement. We will analyse two texts pertaining to this production and underline their features and how they use American symbols to reflect the homosexual experience. Furthermore, the objects of analysis shall centre upon two works which have been ignored to a certain extent by academic research in the study of this period. In this respect, we shall display how these novels can be included as representations of American counterculture.

Nuestro TFG examinará la producción contracultural asociada a la homosexualidad y los movimientos de liberación homosexual. Analizaremos dos textos y señalaremos sus características, así como usan los símbolos tradicionales americanos para reflejar la experiencia gay. Además, nuestros textos han sido ignorados hasta cierto punto por la crítica sobre este período. Proponemos que estas novelas son ejemplos de la contracultura americana.