Sexual Practice/Textual Theory
Lesbian Cultural Criticism
Published on 1. July 1993
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-55786-100-9 (ISBN)
Description
Gathering together lesbian writers from a wide variety of backgrounds, this volume provides an introduction to the full range of lesbian theory and criticism today, from Bonnie Zimmerman's classic overview of lesbian feminist criticism ("What Has Never Been") to Linda Garber's annotated bibliography of lesbian literary critical theory (with Vilashini Cooppan). In their introduction, Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope draw together the major themes of the book, tracing the construction and deconstruction of lesbian identities and voices both in everyday life and within the complex frameworks of feminist, post-feminist, postmodern and post-structuralist theories. The text should be of interest to students and teachers of cultural studies, literary theory, sexuality and gender.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55786-100-9 (9781557861009)
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Content
Part 1 Lesbian identity in feminist literary criticism - the need for lesbian-feminist literary criticism: what has never been - an overview of lesbian feminist criticism, Bonnie Zimmerman; two feminist criticisms - a necessary conflict?, Ann Charles; towards a definition of the lesbian literary imagination, Marilyn R. Farwell. Part 2 Locating our selves in the text - texts as sources of lesbian sense of self: genre as performance - Shakespearean ambiguity and the lesbian reader, Paula Bennett; waiting for Stonewall, Sarah Dreher. Part 3 Applied literary criticism - lesbian feminist (re)visions of the canon: perverse reading - the lesbian appropriation of literature, Bonnie Zimmerman; subverting closure - compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory endings in middle-class British women's novels, Diana L. Swanson; reading "Deephaven" as a lesbian text, Judith Fetterley; sexual narrative in the fiction of Djuna Barnes, Carolyn J. Allen; modernity and lesbian identity in the later works of Nicole Brossard, Marthe Rosenfeld; from isolation to diversity - self and communities in 20th century lesbian novels, Linnea A. Stenson; zam! and the politics of plural identity, Erin G. Carlston; separatism and feminist utopian fiction, Diane Griffin Crowder; liberated laughter - comedic form in some lesbian novels, Louise M. Kawada. Part 4 (Op)positional aesthetics - creating lesbian culture(s): lesbian intertextuality, Elaine Marks; mirrors and likeness - a lesbian aesthetic in the making, Toni A.H. McNaron; poetic politics - how the Amazons took the Acropolis, Jeffner Allen; under the covers - a synthesis of desire (lesbian translations), Alice Parker; an annotated bibliography of lesbian literary critical theory, 1970-1989, Linda Garber and Vilashini Cooppan.