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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Queer Pulp in Jonathan Cutbill's Collection: Gordon Merrick's Body Politics
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SUMMARY:Queer Pulp in Jonathan Cutbill's Collection: Gordon Merrick's Body Politics
DESCRIPTION:<p><a href="https://www.london.ac.uk/senate-house-library/events/queer-pulp-jonathan-cutbills-collection-gordon-merricks-body-politics" data-entity-type="external">RSVP here</a></p><h3><strong>Overview</strong></h3><p>In this session, Andrea Carboni (Durham, SHL, UCL) converses with Professor Michael Bronski (Harvard University) about representations of gay and bisexual male desire in the works of Gordon Merrick.</p><p>This online event draws from material in Jonathan Cutbill's Haud Nominandum Collection, acquired by Senate House Library, and the Seized Books! exhibition.</p><h3><strong>Gordon Merrick</strong></h3><p>Gordon Merrick was an American actor, OSS field officer, and author, one of the first writers to publish mass-marketed queer novels. His voyeuristic pulp fiction often represents queer veterans coming to terms with their gay and bisexual sexualities, expatriate life in Europe and South-East Asia, and class tensions.</p><p>If his unapologetic erotic depictions of male bodies and relationships seems somewhat problematic today, his radical intervention nonetheless raises questions about politics of desire, publishing and target audience.</p>
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