Gay and Lesbian Literary HeritageClaude J. Summers Routledge, 2014年2月25日 - 764 頁 The revised edition of The Gay and Lesbian LiteraryHeritage is a reader's companion to this impressive body of work. It provides overviews of gay and lesbian presence in a variety of literatures and historical periods; in-depth critical essays on major gay and lesbian authors in world literature; and briefer treatments of other topics and figures important in appreciating the rich and varied gay and lesbian literary traditions. Included are nearly 400 alphabetically arranged articles by more than 175 scholars from around the world. New articles in this volume feature authors such as Michael Cunningham, Tony Kushner, Anne Lister, Kate Millet, Jan Morris, Terrence McNally, and Sarah Waters; essays on topics such as Comedy of Manners and Autobiography; and overviews of Danish, Norwegian, Philippines, and Swedish literatures; as well as updated and revised articles and bibliographies. |
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... women generally hid their same-sex relationships behind a public guise of heterosexuality. Only rarely did their lyrics even allude to their sexual desire for other women, and generally all such allusions were tinged with an ambivalence ...
... Women of Brewster Place (1982), Ntozake Shange's positive representations of black lesbians in Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo (1982), and Alice Walker's depiction of women's sexual and emotional love for each other in The Color Purple ...
... women by creating a continuum of heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual women loving women. Although these texts are highly regarded in feminist scholarship, they are rarely included in discussions of African-American or canonical U. S. ...
... women. Again in Zami:A New Spelling of My Name, she uses references to Carriacou, her mother's West Indian homeland, and identifies herself with Afrekete, a highly sexualized trickster figure. By so doing, she creates a culturally ...
... women whose accomplishments have been almost entirely ignored in standard historical records. These revisionary ... women's power. Significantly, this affirmation of black womanhood occurs simultaneously with attempts to establish ...