Category: Literary Criticism

Posted in Canadian Eh Literary Criticism

Lesbian Images by Jane Rule

Jane Rule | Lesbian Images | The author’s attitude toward lesbian experience as measured against images by other women writers, such as Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and May Sarto

Posted in Canadian Eh Literary Criticism

Lesbian Images by Jane Rule

Jane Rule | Lesbian Images | The author’s attitude toward lesbian experience as measured against images by other women writers, such as Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and May Sarto

Posted in Literary Criticism

Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing by David William Foster

David William Foster | Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing | ‘His groundbreaking study must necessarily be read by all who would examine homosexuality in Latin American literature, in order to shape and/or refin

Posted in Black Interest Literary Criticism

The Queer Limit Of Black Memory by Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson | The Queer Limit Of Black Memory | The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women’s literature that has heretofore be

Posted in Lesbian Studies Literary Criticism

Queering the Underworld by Scott Herring

Scott Herring | Queering the Underworld | At the start of the twentieth century, tales of “how the other half lives” experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without le

Posted in Literary Criticism

Willa Cather by Marilee Lindemann

Marilee Lindemann | Willa Cather | Although it has been proven posthumously by scholars that Willa Cather had lesbian relationships, she did not openly celebrate lesbian desire, and eve

Posted in Jewish Interests Literary Criticism

Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes by David William Foster

David William Foster | Spanish Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes | Spanish literature is one of the major European literatures, with an extensive array of canonical and important writers from the Middle Ages to the pr

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

Making Girls into Women by Kathryn R. Kent

Kathryn R. Kent | Making Girls into Women | Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of ‘the lesbian’ by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wome

Posted in Literary Criticism Literary History

Queer Fictions of the Past by Scott Bravmann

Scott Bravmann | Queer Fictions of the Past | This is the first book to look at how lesbians and gays use history to define themselves as social, cultural, and political subjects. Bravmann shows h

Posted in Black Interest Literary Criticism

Critical Essays by Emmanuel Sampath Nelson

Emmanuel Sampath Nelson | Critical Essays | Challenges the marginalization of gay men and lesbians of color in the dominant academic discourses by focusing scholarly attention on the imaginative