Novel Approaches To Lesbian History

Author : Linda Garber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030854171

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Novel Approaches to Lesbian History by Linda Garber Pdf

Novel Approaches to Lesbian History tells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that depict lesbian characters in recognizable historical situations. These imaginative stories provide a politically vital, speculative past in the face of a sketchy, problematic archive. Among the memorable characters in some 200 novels are pirates, cowgirls, and famous artists, ghosts and time travellers, immigrants and lovers. The best lesbian historical novels are conscientious and buoyant as they engage critical historiographical questions, but Novel Approaches also discusses the class and race biases that weigh on the genre. Some lesbian historical novels are based on archival evidence, others on conjecture or fantasy, but all convey the true fact that identity is elusive without a past, without which its future is nearly impossible.

Author : Linda Garber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030854183

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Novel Approaches to Lesbian History by Linda Garber Pdf

"With wit and verve, Linda Garber shows how lesbian historical fiction fills in the lacunae that the imagination craves-and that historians, limited to documented evidence, cannot produce... a wonderfully entertaining read." --Lillian Faderman, author of Surpassing the Love of Men, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, and To Believe in Women "Garber captures the urgent need we have to find our woman-loving selves in the past, in a crisp lesbian literary history full of pride, passion, and charm. At the same time, she calls to account the places where the work has been inauthentic. You'll finish Garber's book clutching a very long fiction reading list!" --Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories "A study of the fascinating genre of lesbian historical fiction is long overdue, and Garber's is insightful and highly readable." --Emma Donohue, author of Room, The Pull of the Stars, Life Mask, and The Sealed Letter Novel Approaches to Lesbian History tells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that depict lesbian characters in recognizable historical situations. These imaginative stories provide a politically vital, speculative past in the face of a sketchy, problematic archive. Among the memorable characters in some 200 novels are pirates, cowgirls, and famous artists, ghosts and time travellers, immigrants and lovers. The best lesbian historical novels are conscientious and buoyant as they engage critical historiographical questions, but Novel Approaches also discusses the class and race biases that weigh on the genre. Some lesbian historical novels are based on archival evidence, others on conjecture or fantasy, but all convey the true fact that identity is elusive without a past, without which its future is nearly impossible. Linda Garber is the author of Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory and Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, and the editor of Tilting the Tower: Lesbians/Teaching/Queer Subjects. She is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University, USA.

Author : Sonya L Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781317971146

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Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II by Sonya L Jones Pdf

Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II chronicles the multifaceted explosion of gay and lesbian writing that has taken place in the second half of the twentieth century. Encompassing a wide range of subject matter and a balance of gay and lesbian concerns, it includes work by established scholars as well as young theoreticians and archivists who have initiated new areas of investigation. The contributors’examinations of this rich literary period make it easy to view the half-century from 1948 to 1998 as the Queer Renaissance. Included in Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II are critical and social analyses of literary movements, novels, short fiction, periodicals, and poetry as well as a look at the challenges of establishing a repository for lesbian cultural history. Specific chapters in this groundbreaking work trace the development of gay poetry in America after World War II; examine how AIDS is represented in the first four Latino novels to deal with the subject matter; and chronicle the birth of lesbian-feminist publishing in the 1970s--showing how it created a flourishing gay literature in the 1980s and 1990s. Other chapters: outline the history of The Ladder from its initial publication in 1956 as the official vehicle of the Daughters of Bilitis to its final issue as a privately published literary magazine in 1972 examine Baldwin’s 1962 novel Another Country and discuss the complicated critical history of this work and its relation to Baldwin’s literary reputation--racial, sexual, and political factors are taken into account chart how Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote, and The House of Breath, by William Goyen, reveal contradictory genderings of male homosexuality--suggesting an absence of a unified model of mid-twentieth-century male homosexuality argue that the 1976 novel Lover, by Bertha Harris, can be considered an exemplary novel within discussions of both postmodern fiction and lesbian theory. (The author calls for Harris to be added to the group of writers such as Wittig, Anzaldúa, Lorde, and Winterson, who are discussed within the context of a postmodern lesbian narrative.) examine the short fiction of Canadian lesbian novelist Jane Rule in an effort to shed light on lesbian creative practice in the homophobic climate of postwar North America argue for an understanding of Dale Peck’s novel Martin and John as an attempt to link two apparently different processes of import to contemporary male subjects through examination of the novel alongside selected passages from Nietzsche and Freud focus on the pragmatic issues of developing and maintaining accessible research venues from which to cultivate the study of racial and cultural diversity in lesbian lives Document the history of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, one of the first lesbian-specific collections in the world, from its birth in the early 1970s to the present.

Author : Scott Bravmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521599075

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Queer Fictions of the Past by Scott Bravmann Pdf

In Queer Fictions of the Past, Scott Bravmann explores the complexity of lesbian and gay engagement with history and considers how historical discourses animate the present. Characterising historical representations as dynamic conversations between then and now, he demonstrates their powerful role in constructing present identities, differences, politics, and communities. In particular, his is the first book to explore the ways in which lesbians and gay men have used history to define themselves as social, cultural, and political subjects.

Author : Brian Lewis
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 071908895X

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British Queer History by Brian Lewis Pdf

This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. In offering a snapshot of the field, this volume demonstrates the richness and promise of one of the most vibrant areas of modern British history and the complexity and breadth of discussion, debate and approach. It showcases challenging think-pieces from leading luminaries alongside some of the most original and exciting research by established and emerging young scholars. The book provides a plethora of fresh perspectives and a wealth of new information, suggests enticing avenues for research and – in bringing the whole question of sexual identity to the forefront of debate – challenges us to rethink queer history's parameters.

Author : Lillian Faderman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451694123

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The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman Pdf

A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.

Author : Ellen Gruber Garvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199986354

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Writing with Scissors by Ellen Gruber Garvey Pdf

Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. In this groundbreaking book, Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women's rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create "unwritten histories" in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives. Writing with Scissors argues that people have long had a strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically "scissorized" and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their reading along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information, news, and what we do with it.

Author : Terry Castle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231125100

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The Literature of Lesbianism by Terry Castle Pdf

Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. This anthology registers that fact in as encompassing and enlightening a way as possible. Castle explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism."

Author : J. E. Leak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1955294038

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In the Shadow of Love by J. E. Leak Pdf

Author : James T Sears
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429710919

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Lonely Hunters by James T Sears Pdf

As in his highly acclaimed Growing Up Gay in the South, James Sears masterfully blends a symphony of Southern voices to chronicle the era from the baby boom to the dawn of gay rights and the Stonewall riot. Sears weaves a rich historical tapestry through the use of personal reminiscences, private letters, subpoenaed testimony and previously

Author : Lillian Faderman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231530743

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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman Pdf

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels, medical literature, pop culture artifacts, and oral histories by lesbians of all ages and backgrounds, uncovering a narrative of uncommon depth and originality.

Author : Phyllis M. Betz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786454389

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Lesbian Romance Novels by Phyllis M. Betz Pdf

This critical analysis of the popular romance novel genre offers an evaluation of the field through the subgenre of the lesbian romance novel. A history of the lesbian romance novel is followed by analyses of both individual works by authors writing in the genre as well as the ways in which lesbian romance novels reflect and transform the techniques of heterosexual romance novels.

Author : Joe Alan Austin,Michael Nevin Willard,Michael Willard
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814706459

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Generations of Youth by Joe Alan Austin,Michael Nevin Willard,Michael Willard Pdf

Brings together recent and new work on youth and youth cultures by social historians and American/cultural studies scholars. Chapters are arranged in chronological order within the 20th century. Subjects include youth and ethnicity in New York City high schools in the 1930s and 1940s, intercultural dance halls in post-WWII greater Los Angeles, art and activism in the Chicano Movement, the music of Public Enemy, the emergence of a lesbian, bisexual, and gay youth cyberculture, and zines and the making of underground community. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Bonnie Zimmerman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0815319207

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Lesbian Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman Pdf

To reflect this crucial fact, The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures has been prepared in two separate volumes to assure that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : E. L. McCallum,Mikko Tuhkanen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316194560

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The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature by E. L. McCallum,Mikko Tuhkanen Pdf

The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is grounded in current scholarship. It presents new critical approaches to gay and lesbian literature that will serve the needs of students and specialists alike. Written by leading scholars in the field, The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature will not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a definitive reference for gay and lesbian literature for years to come.