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Tennessee Williams,, or does not dare, to write of the gay experience directly. We can arrive at a reading of the plays based on this premise which, nevertheless, does not purport either to invalidate other approaches or to claim comprehensiveness, but which should enlarge our understanding of the texts by exploring p

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Imamu Amiri Baraka,war America. The speaker is Clay, hitherto a model of black middle-class composure, who finally turns in rage upon Lula, his undulant white temptress, as they travel the subway ‘in the flying underbelly of the city’. His belief that ‘Murder. Just murder! Would make us all sane’ bespeaks an avenging

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Tennessee Williams,d Laura Wingfield’s lameness, and the figure of the unicorn in her glass menagerie, as metaphors for homosexuality. I have argued not that Williams has consciously done this (though of course he may have) but that readers aware of Williams’s homosexuality will recognise that the metaphors do indeed

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