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Willa Cather, queering America /

Although it has been proven posthumously by scholars that Willa Cather had lesbian relationships, she did not openly celebrate lesbian desire, and even today is sometimes described as homophobic and misogynistic. What, then, can a reassessment of this contentious first lady of American letters add t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindemann, Marilee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1999.
Colección:Between men--between women.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Texts and List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Novelist, the Critic, and the "Queer"
  • PART I. Fear of a Queer Prairie: Figures of the Body and/ as the Nation in the Letters and Early Novels
  • 1. Driving One-Handed: The Law, the Letter, and the Unsanctioned Voice
  • 2. "Filling Out Nice": Body-Building and Nation-Building in the Early Novels
  • PART II. Queering the "Classics": Willa Cather and the Literary History of the United States
  • 3. "In a Prohibition Country": The Culture Wars of the 1920s
  • 4. Comrades and Countrymen: Queer Love and a Dream of "America"
  • Conclusion: Queer (R)Age-Notes on the Late Fiction and the Queering of the World
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.