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Contemporary lesbian writing : dreams, desire, difference
- Title
- Contemporary lesbian writing : dreams, desire, difference / Paulina Palmer.
- Author
- Palmer, Paulina, 1937-
- Publication
- Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1993.
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- Description
- x, 141 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Gender in writing
- Uniform Title
- Gender in writing.
- Subjects
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Lesbians' writings, American > History and criticism
- Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Lesbians' writings, English > History and criticism
- Lesbians in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-133) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical perspectives. The Lesbian Feminist Movement and its development. Politics and woman-identification. Libertarian and poststructuralist approaches -- 3. Political fictions. The lesbian writer and her texts. The novel of self-discovery. Lesbian continuum. Lesbian community -- 4. Genre fiction: the thriller. Genre fiction. Contradictions, codes and conventions. The investigator -- 5. Genre fiction: the comic novel. Comedy, satire, laughter. Problematizing heterosexuality. Lesbian existence. Freaks and monsters -- 6. New developments in fiction: fantasy and sex. New departures. Fantasy and narrativity. Sex and the thriller. Sex and desire. Romance/anti-romance.
- ISBN
- 0335090397
- 0335090389 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 93002467
- OCLC
- 28292481
- ocm28292481
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries