New Lesbian Criticism by Sally Munt

New Lesbian Criticism

Literary and Cultural Readings

Sally Munt

This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed against reading as a ‘woman’ or as a ‘heterosexual’. Contributors both explore the uses of recent theories such as post-structuralism and offer a lesbian critique of such methodologies. Close readings of contemporary lesbian fiction and popular culture focus on works such as Zami, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Wanderground, and Desert of the Heart as well as on lesbian pornography. Together the essays point to lesbian culture’s ability to create new meanings for iteself and to foreground the intertextuality of lesbian identities.Contributors: Sonya Andemahr, Lisa Henderson, Hilary Hinds, Katie King, Reina Lewis, Sally Munt, Gillian Spraggs, Angela Weir, Anna Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson, and Bonnie Zimmerman.

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ISBN 9780231080194
Genre Literary Criticism; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Publication Date 17-Dec-92
Publisher Columbia University Press
Editor Sally Munt
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 207
Language English
Rating NotRated
Editor Sally Munt
BookID 8785

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