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Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives.

What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly) lesbian? Does there have to be a lesbian theme and must it be politically acceptable?. Marilyn Farwell here examines the work of such writers as Adri...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farwell, Marilyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 1996.
Colección:Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series.
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; ONE When Is a Lesbian Narrative a Lesbian Narrative?; TWO Narrative: The Elastic Project; THREE The Lesbian Subject: A War of Images; FOUR The Romantic Lesbian Narrative: Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems" and Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death, and the Changing of the Season; FIVE The Heroic Lesbian Narrative: Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place; SIX The Postmodern Lesbian Text: Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body; SEVEN Conclusion.