Outlander
Short Stories and Essays
Published on 18. June 2013
208 pages
978-1-4804-2944-4 (ISBN)
Description
Fiction and nonfiction form compelling counterpoints in this powerful look at love and lesbianism
The stories and essays in this anthology depict homosexuality in all its variegated forms.
In "Home Movie," Alysoun Carr, a clarinetist with the San Francisco Symphony, learns about overcoming fear from a woman named Constantina. "In the Attic of the House" depicts sixty-five-year-old Alice, who rents rooms to younger gay women who have no inkling of Alice's tragic lesbian past. "Outlander" is about a widowed alcoholic trying to stay sober through a war that will take her son and, possibly, her longtime lover. "Sexuality in Literature" is a lively essay about everything from the homophobia that exists in all of us to the new words that need to be invented for female sexuality.
The stories and essays in this anthology depict homosexuality in all its variegated forms.
In "Home Movie," Alysoun Carr, a clarinetist with the San Francisco Symphony, learns about overcoming fear from a woman named Constantina. "In the Attic of the House" depicts sixty-five-year-old Alice, who rents rooms to younger gay women who have no inkling of Alice's tragic lesbian past. "Outlander" is about a widowed alcoholic trying to stay sober through a war that will take her son and, possibly, her longtime lover. "Sexuality in Literature" is a lively essay about everything from the homophobia that exists in all of us to the new words that need to be invented for female sexuality.
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Person
Jane Rule (1931-2007) was the author of several novels and essay collections, including the groundbreaking lesbian love story
Desert of the Heart (1964),which was made into the feature film
Desert Hearts. She was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2007. Born in New Jersey, Rule moved to Canada in 1956, and lived on Galiano Island, British Columbia, until her death at the age of seventy-six.
Content
- Cover
- Dedication
- Stories
- Home Movie
- The Day I Don't Remember
- The Puppet Show
- Outlander
- Miss Wistan's Promise
- Pictures
- The Killer Dyke and the Lady
- Lilian
- In the Attic of the House
- First Love/Last Love
- Sightseers in Death Valley
- A Perfectly Nice Man
- Night Call
- Essays
- Sexuality in Literature
- Teaching Sexuality
- Private Parts and Public Figures
- With All Due Respect
- Homophobia and Romantic Love
- Stumps
- Letters
- The Sex War
- Fucking Pariahs on the Schoolroom Shelf
- Closet-Burning
- Reflections
- Grandmothers
- A Biography of Jane Rule
- Copyright
