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Narratives of Queer Desire by Margaret Sonser Breen

Margaret Sonser Breen | Narratives of Queer Desire | Narratives of Queer Desire: Deserts of the Heart is an interdisciplinary project that uses literary analysis, especially close reading, along with per

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Really Reading Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein; Judy Grahn

Gertrude Stein; Judy Grahn | Really Reading Gertrude Stein | This book is organized into three sections, each beginning with an essay that clarifies the following selections, usually in excerpted form, from Stei

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The Highest Apple by Judy Grahn

Judy Grahn | The Highest Apple | An exploration of lesbian poetry.

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Black Interest Literary Criticism Literary History

Color, Sex, And Poetry by Gloria T. Hull

Gloria T. Hull | Color, Sex, And Poetry | A biographical/critical study of three Harlem Renaissance poets?Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Georgia Douglas Johnson?during a rich a

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The Art of Jaime Hernandez by Todd Hignite; Alison Bechdel

Todd Hignite; Alison Bechdel | The Art of Jaime Hernandez | In 1981 three Mexican-American brothers self-published their first comic book, Love and Rockets, and “changed American cartooning forever” according t

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No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami

Diana Souhami | No Modernism Without Lesbians | The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist m

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The Drowned Girl Now Rises by Martha Courtot

Martha Courtot | The Drowned Girl Now Rises | ‘This creative project, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, contains original poetry, pr

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The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni | The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni | For the first time, the collected prose of national treasure Nikki Giovanni Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Yea

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The Prosaïc Soul of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni | The Prosaïc Soul of Nikki Giovanni | For the first time, the collected prose of national treasure Nikki Giovanni Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Yea

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Reading the Romance by Janice A. Radway

Janice A. Radway | Reading the Romance | Originally published in 1984, Reading The Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing’s most