Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature

Informationen zum Autor Jodie Medd is Associate Professor of English at Carleton University, Ottawa. She is the author of Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism (Cambridge, 2012) and essays on queer sexuality and modernism. Klappentext This Companion examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present.The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In so doing, it delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Lesbian literature?: an introduction Jodie Medd; 1. The queer time of lesbian literature: history and temporality Carla Freccero; 2. Debating definitions: the lesbian in feminist studies and queer studies Annamarie Jagose; 3. Experience, difference, and power Sandra K. Soto; 4. Global desires, postcolonial critique: queer women in nation, migration, and diaspora Shamira A. Meghani; 5. Situating female same-sex love in the middle ages Karma Lochrie; 6. 'Bedfellowes in royaltie': early/modern Sapphic representations Susan S. Lanser; 7. Writing lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century Caroline Gonda; 8. Lesbian postmortem at the fin de siècle Kate Thomas; 9. Modern times: modernist writing, modern sexualities Madelyn Detloff; 10. Popular genres and 'lesbian' culture: from pulp to crime, and beyond Kaye Mitchell; 11. Lesbian autobiography and memoir Monica Pearl; 12. Lesbianism-poetry/poetry-lesbianism Amy Sara Carroll; 13. Contemporary lesbian fiction: into the twenty-first century Emma Parker; 14. Comics, graphic narratives, and lesbian lives Heike Bauer.

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• Authors: EDITED BY JODIE MEDD, Jodie Medd, Jodie (Carleton University Medd
• Assisted by: Jodie Medd (Editor), Jodie (Carleton University Medd (Editor), Medd Jodie (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2015
• EAN: 9781107663435
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66343-5
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Lesbian studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics