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The Vintage book of international lesbian fiction / edited and with an introduction by Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle.

Title
The Vintage book of international lesbian fiction / edited and with an introduction by Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle.
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Holoch, Naomi.
  • Nestle, Joan, 1940-
Description
xviii, 349 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
Stories by lesbian writers from around the world. They range from Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat's story on a relationship between a lesbian and a snake, to a piece by France's Mireille Best on a relationship of a woman with her son's teacher.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Fiction > Women authors
  • Lesbians' writings
  • Lesbians > Fiction
  • Fiction > 20th century
  • Women authors > Fiction > Translations into English
  • Fiction > 20th century > Translations into English
  • Lesbians' writings > Translations into English
  • Fiction > Translations into English
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Translations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-342).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Caribbean chameleon / Makeda Silvera -- Stephanie's book / Mireille Best -- Final judgment ; Singing in the desert / Cristina Peri Rossi -- Lemon Scent / Shani Mootoo -- Sappho or suicide / Marguerite Yourcenar -- Looking for Petronilla / Emma Donoghue -- Gypsophila / Dale Gunthorp -- They came at dawn / Karen Williams -- Lesbian bedrooms / Cynthia Price -- My world of the unknown / Alifa Rifaat -- The Civil War ; Sandalwood ; Transl(iter)ation I ; Transl(iter)ation II (for Aruna and Giti) / Yasmin V. Tambiah -- Madame Alaird's breasts / Dionne Brand -- Lost faces / Karen-Susan Fessel -- The girl typist who worked for a provincial ministry of culture / Maria Eugenia Alegria Nunez -- Paretipua ; Old Man Tuna ; Watching the big girls / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Forever lasts only a full moon / Rosamaria Roffiel -- Waters / Achy Obejas -- Meeting Natalia / Gila Svirsky -- Under the ironwood trees / Suzana Tratnik -- Aphrodite's vision / Elena Georgiou -- Minnie gets married / Gina Schein.
ISBN
0679759522 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98032138^
OCLC
40311449
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library