Title Contemporary lesbian writing : dreams, desire, difference / Paulina Palmer

Published Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1993

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Description x, 141 pages ; 24 cm Series Gender in writing Gender in writing. 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 Analysis English literature Special subjects Lesbianism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [123]-133) and index Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Lesbians in literature. Homosexuality and literature -- English-speaking countries. Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism. Lesbians' writings, English -- History and criticism. Lesbians -- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. LC no. 93002467 ISBN 0335090389 (paperback) 0335090397

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