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Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives

Lesbian Life and Literature

By: Marilyn R. Farwell

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Paperback | 30 November 1995

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What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly) lesbian? Does there have to be a lesbian theme and must it be politically acceptable?

Marilyn Farwell here examines the work of such writers as Adrienne Rich, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jeanette Winterson, Gloria Naylor, and Marilyn Hacker to address these questions. Dividing their writings into two genres--the romantic story and the heroic, or quest, story, Farwell addresses some of the most problematic issues at the intersection of literature, sex, gender, and postmodernism.

Illustrating how the generational conflict between the lesbian- feminists of twenty years ago and the queer theorists of today stokes the critical fires of contemporary lesbian and literary theory, Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives concludes by arguing for a broad and generous definition of lesbian writing.

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Marilyn Farwell's thoughtful and highly readable text is the first to look at lesbian writing from the perspective of narrative theory, not content, social context, or critical theory. By positioning herself between essentialist lesbian feminism and anti-essentialist postmodernism, she provides a strong case for refusing simplistic oppositions and redrawing the lines of contemporary lesbian criticism. A provocative and enjoyable approach to lesbian literature.--Bonnie Zimmerman, San Diego State University

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
When is a Lesbian Narrative a Lesbian Narrative?	p. 1
Narrative: The Elastic Project	p. 26
The Lesbian Subject: A War of Images	p. 63
The Romantic Lesbian Narrative: Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems" and Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons	p. 108
The Heroic Lesbian Narrative: Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place	p. 137
The Postmodern Lesbian Text: Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body	p. 168
Conclusion	p. 195
Works Cited	p. 201
Index	p. 217
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