Is Marlowe a Racist?

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 19:01:43 CDT 2009


Harper Lee?

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:40 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> It's not as if there were a lot of heterosexual, openly pro-gay writers in the US at the time.  Can anyone name one?  You can't really attack someone for being a product of their times.
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> Laura
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>>> On the question of Marlowe's homophobia, Widdecombe discusses the
>>> possibility that Marlowe is in fact himself gay. He ultimately doesn't
>>> seem to reach any conclusions, except to say that Chandler himself
>>> seems uncertain of his attitude towards homosexuals.
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>>> http://books.google.com/books?id=1-WNd4rL9YoC&pg=PP1&dq=A+reader%27s+guide+to+Raymond+Chandler#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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