New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings
The 1990s has seen the growing consolidation of lesbian and gay studies as a key area of cultural theory, particularly in relation to ideas about the construction of subjectivity and identity. Lesbian theory specifically intersects with feminism and sexuality/identity politics to critique both gender and (hetero) sexuality, while developments in lesbian criticism suggest a move towards a new textual practice. This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed...
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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.BooknewsSort of a progress report on the work being done in lesbian criticism. Contributors both explore the uses of recent theories such as poststructuralism and offer a lesbian critique of such methodologies. Close readings of contemporary lesbian fiction and popular culture focus on works such as Zamie, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Wanderground, and Desert of the Heart, as well as on lesbian pornography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgementsIntroduction1Lesbians Like This and That: Some Notes on Lesbian Criticism for the Nineties12The Death of the Author and the Resurrection of the Dyke173'Somewhere over the rainbow...' Postmodernism and the Fiction of Sarah Schulman334Audre Lorde's Lacquered Layerings: The Lesbian Bar as a Site of Literary Production515Audre Lorde and the African-American Tradition: When the Family is Not Enough756The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture957Hell and the Mirror: A Reading of Desert of the Heart1158The Politics of Separatism and Lesbian Utopian Fiction1339Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Reaching Audiences Other Lesbian Texts Cannot Reach15310Lesbian Pornography: Cultural Trangression and Sexual Demystification173Suggestions for Further Reading193Notes on Contributors205
\ BooknewsSort of a progress report on the work being done in lesbian criticism. Contributors both explore the uses of recent theories such as poststructuralism and offer a lesbian critique of such methodologies. Close readings of contemporary lesbian fiction and popular culture focus on works such as Zamie, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Wanderground, and Desert of the Heart, as well as on lesbian pornography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
