Boundless Hearts in a Nightmare World: Queer Sentimentalism and Southern Gothicism in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms"

Pugh offers a reading of Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" to liberate it from a reductive critical past. It, like many other Southern writings, was too casually labeled "gothic." Capote employs gothicism in tandem with sentimentalism.

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Published in:The Mississippi quarterly 1998-10, Vol.51 (4), p.663-682
Main Author: PUGH, WILLIAM WHITE TISON
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Capote, Truman (1924-1984)
LGBTQ literature
Literary criticism
Novels
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Summary:Pugh offers a reading of Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" to liberate it from a reductive critical past. It, like many other Southern writings, was too casually labeled "gothic." Capote employs gothicism in tandem with sentimentalism.
ISSN:0026-637X
2689-517X