On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, ejmd wrote:
> I'd be interested to know a bit more about his
comments on my take on the
> representation of gay characters ... I'm not sure if
anybody on the list
> will have read the article (in CT 3.2) so, just to
clarify, in short, it was
> roughly this; 'for Pelecanos, homosexuality seems to
be a way of coding
> characters as deviant' and I offered several
examples, from King Suckerman,
> Down by the River, and The Sweet Forever.
I had similar feelings when reading "King Suckerman". I also
wondered why there were so few dramatically important women
in the novel.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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