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Title: An uneven yet important piece of scholarship
Review: While many of the articles in the collection Gay American Novelists lack a sufficient critical background to make them important contributions the the ever expanding field of gay studies, individual articles represent outstanding insights into the works of gay Ameican novelists, most notably Emmanuel Nelson's essay on the the works of James Baldwin, among others. Although the collection as a whole may be at best uneven in quality, the effort to create a sourcebook for information concerning gay American novelists was long overdue and will make a substantial contribution to the field.
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