Gee Joyner

Kim; the Story of John Gee Joyner

Including three works of diverse artistry, Joyner dissects the American social conscious pertaining to race, gender, and sexual orientation in a way that is palpable to audiences from all walks of life. In Pipers Gap, a story of role reversal, the reader is shown what a quaint American town would be like if White people were the subordinate minority and Black Americans were the embodiment of all the finer attributes of humankind. Thus, Blacks are depicted as the dominant culture in this tale of power, prejudice, and ethnic preservation. Black GI Got Tail is a correspondence piece that details an African American soldier's trials and tribulations, as well as culture shock, while defending his country during the Vietnam War. The text is written in letter-form and uses vivid imagery and language to exhibit the unnamed soldier's transformation from homesick teen to beleaguered killer. Lastly, the title story, Kim; the Story of John, is a homoerotic tale that encapsulates the ups and downs of heterosexual men's desires and fantasies come to pass. When "good sex goes bad", the two main characters, Capp and Tawson, war with themselves, attempting to understand the source of their sexual appetites, as well as coming to grips with the fact that they have been sexually victimized at the hands of someone whom they never would have suspected. The line between hetero- and homo- is sexually blurred in this misadventure of college sex romps gone awry.