Category: Literary Criticism

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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

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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

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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

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After Mecca by Cheryl Clarke

Cheryl Clarke | After Mecca | This is the only book-length treatment of Black women poets of the Black Arts Movement, their contributions to the development of feminism and lesbian

Posted in Award Winner Literary Criticism

The Safe Sea Of Women by Bonnie Zimmerman

Bonnie Zimmerman | The Safe Sea Of Women | Provides an overview of lesbian fiction, and analyzes the ways in which it has both mirrored and shaped the lesbian movement and lesbian culture

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My Mama’s Dead Squirrel by Mab Segrest

Mab Segrest | My Mama’s Dead Squirrel | This collection brings together essays published over the past eight years by lesbian-feminist organizer and editor Segrest, who is the granddaughter

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Out Loud by Ed Madden; Candace Chellew-Hodge

Ed Madden; Candace Chellew-Hodge | Out Loud | From a small radio studio in the heart of the Deep South, the voices of gay and lesbian Southerners suddenly filled the AM airwaves. “For far too long

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Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives by Marilyn R. Farwell

Marilyn R. Farwell | Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives | What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly)