Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150102562

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150102562

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

American Literary Celebrity and Contemporary Identity. In post-war America, the writers James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams were all assumed to be homosexual in the days before this became relatively "safe," yet they all attained celebrity status. This project aims to examine the effect that the presence of these literary celebrities had on the formation of contemporary gay identity. In doing so, the project aims to demonstrate the inadequacy of the analytic categories of the open secret and the closet, conventionally used in sexuality studies to explain gay identity in the post-war years before gay liberation. The project endeavours to contribute to our understanding of two vital and interrelated aspects of contemporary society: celebrity culture and gay identity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 30-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $124,791.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | North American Literature

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Languages and Literature |

Other Keywords

Languages and Literature | Literary Studies | North American Literature

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