David Leavitt is the author of novels, short stories, novellas, travel books, essays, and the editor of classics and anthologies. Leavitt has repeatedly expressed his suspicion about the different labels attached to his work, such as gay literature or minimalist literature, referring instead to late Victorian and early modernist authors as his major sources of inspiration. Among the motifs that most frequently recur in his work, this entry focuses on home and the family as his characters’ idealized expectations or repositories of memories; geography and spatiality as epistemic categories that either reflect or counterbalance his characters’ existences; the role of the body, especially with regard to illness and information technologies; and finally memory and the past, as sites of contested belonging and identification.
David Leavitt
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2022-01-01
Abstract
David Leavitt is the author of novels, short stories, novellas, travel books, essays, and the editor of classics and anthologies. Leavitt has repeatedly expressed his suspicion about the different labels attached to his work, such as gay literature or minimalist literature, referring instead to late Victorian and early modernist authors as his major sources of inspiration. Among the motifs that most frequently recur in his work, this entry focuses on home and the family as his characters’ idealized expectations or repositories of memories; geography and spatiality as epistemic categories that either reflect or counterbalance his characters’ existences; the role of the body, especially with regard to illness and information technologies; and finally memory and the past, as sites of contested belonging and identification.
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