Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the 17th Century to the Present
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670846384 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 812 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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In addition, writing by men who focused on women's relationship is included. This is a literary anthology with each piece set in an historical and literary context that seeks to redefine four centuries of lesbian writing. A review of the shifting concept of "lesbian literature" is offered, followed by examples of six different genres - Romantic Friendship, Sexual Inversion, Exotic Inversion, Exotic and Evil Lesbians, Lesbian Encoding, Lesbian Feminism and Post-Lesbian Feminism. Works as diverse as Willa Cather's "My Antonia" and Virginia Woolf's "Orlando", poetry by Gertrude Stein and Amy Lowell, fiction by Carson McCullers, Helen Hulll and Alice Walker are examined here. From the verse of Sappho in 600BC to Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" published in 1928, there is little women's writing that is recognised as "lesbian". This is Faderman's own personal search for a definition of lesbian literature.
A Customer said A wonderful anthology of lesbian poetry and literature.. Lillian Faderman has done an impressive job of collectingpoetic and literary works on lesbian topics and presentingthem in the context of the author's lives and the literary climate of they time they were published. This is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in lesbian or women's writings. A must have!. Massive but still incomplete I took a class on Virginia Woolfe and Katherine Mansfield when I was in college and still in denial about my lesbian nature. I respected my professor, the discussion we had in class, liked Mansfield's stories, but hated Woolfe. I could not understand either author's stories, could barely read Woolfe. I wrote five different papers on them without understanding at all. We talke. "Chloe Plus Olivia Rocks!" according to deb oller. This book is a must read for anyone who wants a sound education on lesbian writers. Outstanding collection of writers and writings.
There will be debate over the choice of selections, however; Faderman admits that many of her chosen authors wouldn't have considered themselves lesbian. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Sarah Schulman's witty "The Penis Story" highlights the final section, in which Faderman charts the course of "post-lesbian-feminist literature" into more explicitly sexual territory, with many pieces from minority writers. . Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 lesbian vampire novella, "Carmilla," is juxtaposed against an excerpt from Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories . The next section charts the rise of the lesbian feminist voice in the '60s and '70s and features pieces by Rita Mae Brown and Joanna Russ. Faderman's notes are indispensable. Grouping her material into six sections, Faderman ( Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers ) first examines the concept of romantic friendship between women, as in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market." She acknowl