Category: Literary Criticism

Posted in Literary Criticism Memoir

Aggregated Discontent by Harron Walker

Aggregated Discontent | Harron Walker | A searing journey through the highs and lows of twenty-first century womanhood from an award-winning journalist beloved for her unflinchingly honest a

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Criticism Memoir

Authority by Andrea Long Chu

Authority | Andrea Long Chu | Since her canonical 2017 essay ‘On Liking Women’, the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as one of the most provoca

Posted in Literary Criticism Poetry

Queer Poetics by Mary E. Galvin

Queer Poetics | Mary E. Galvin | Galvin provides a critical look at the intersections between the development of queer consciousness and the poetic experimentations of Emily Dickinson

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Essays Literary Criticism

Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature by Ana I. Simón-Alegre; Lou Charnon-Deutsch

Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature | Ana I. Simón-Alegre; Lou Charnon-Deutsch | This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who through their writings and social activism addressed social

Posted in Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Criticism

Writing Queer Women of Color by Monalesia Earle

Writing Queer Women of Color | Monalesia Earle | Queer women of color have historically been underrepresented or excluded completely in fiction and comics. When present, they are depicted as ‘less th

Posted in Literary Criticism

Identity Poetics by Linda Garber

Identity Poetics | Linda Garber | ‘Queer theory,’ asserts Linda Garber, ‘alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contribut

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Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (Between Men-Between Women – Lesbian and Gay Studies) by Ruth Vanita

Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (Between Men-Between Women – Lesbian and Gay Studies) | Ruth Vanita | What at first glance looks like a product of the inadvertent double booking of a convention hall turns out to be an initial exploration of the signifi

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Terry Castle

The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall | Terry Castle | Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century no

Posted in Fiction History Literary Criticism Short Stories

Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest

Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 | Katherine V. Forrest | Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbian pul

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Lesbian Images by Jane Rule

Lesbian Images | Jane Rule | Jane Rule?s fourth book explores lesbianism as portrayed by authors from Gertrude Stein to Colette, from Vita Sackville-West to May Sarton and Willa C