David Deutsch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA.

“Queer Angels performs an exciting reorientation of twentieth-century gay men’s writing around the figure of the angel, highlighting how writers as different as Nugent, Rechy, Ginsberg, and Alameddine reconceive experiences of degradation as epiphanic, filled with grace and ‘bad beatitude.’”

• Introduction: Uncovering the Queer Angels in Our MidstChapter 1: John Rechy’s Angelic Outlaws: Surviving the Desire for SalvationChapter 2: Richard Bruce Nugent’s Angelic Erotics: Rebellious Spirits in Multi-Racial Same-Sex RomancesChapter 3: Allen Ginsberg’s Angelic Economies: Sex, Spirituality, and a Queer Anti-ImperialismChapter 4: Angels Amid Affliction: Angelic Immigrants and an Expansive Americanism in the Era of HIV/AIDSConclusion: Angelic Anxieties and Outlaw Expectations

David Deutsch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA.

“Queer Angels performs an exciting reorientation of twentieth-century gay men’s writing around the figure of the angel, highlighting how writers as different as Nugent, Rechy, Ginsberg, and Alameddine reconceive experiences of degradation as epiphanic, filled with grace and ‘bad beatitude.’”

• Introduction: Uncovering the Queer Angels in Our MidstChapter 1: John Rechy’s Angelic Outlaws: Surviving the Desire for SalvationChapter 2: Richard Bruce Nugent’s Angelic Erotics: Rebellious Spirits in Multi-Racial Same-Sex RomancesChapter 3: Allen Ginsberg’s Angelic Economies: Sex, Spirituality, and a Queer Anti-ImperialismChapter 4: Angels Amid Affliction: Angelic Immigrants and an Expansive Americanism in the Era of HIV/AIDSConclusion: Angelic Anxieties and Outlaw Expectations

David Deutsch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA.

“Queer Angels performs an exciting reorientation of twentieth-century gay men’s writing around the figure of the angel, highlighting how writers as different as Nugent, Rechy, Ginsberg, and Alameddine reconceive experiences of degradation as epiphanic, filled with grace and ‘bad beatitude.’”

• Introduction: Uncovering the Queer Angels in Our MidstChapter 1: John Rechy’s Angelic Outlaws: Surviving the Desire for SalvationChapter 2: Richard Bruce Nugent’s Angelic Erotics: Rebellious Spirits in Multi-Racial Same-Sex RomancesChapter 3: Allen Ginsberg’s Angelic Economies: Sex, Spirituality, and a Queer Anti-ImperialismChapter 4: Angels Amid Affliction: Angelic Immigrants and an Expansive Americanism in the Era of HIV/AIDSConclusion: Angelic Anxieties and Outlaw Expectations