Following Djuna Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss

Name: Following Djuna Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss
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ISBN: 9780253210470

ISBN-10: 025321047X

ISBN-13: 9780253210470

Edition: 1996

Authors: Carolyn Allen

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Following Djuna is a fascinating analysis of the textual erotics and lyrical seductions of the work of Djuna Barnes and the writers she influences. This scintillating genealogy of lesbian intertextuality . . . usefully expands the field of lesbian and feminist literary inquiry and concepts of lesbian literary production. Judith RoofBy naming the Djuna Barnes Tradition, as opposed to the Radclyffe Hall Tradition, Allen identifies the power of a certain lesbian romance line in Modern and Postmodern literature and culturetracing its progress from Bertha Harris to Jeanette Winterson and Rebecca Brown, which makes perfect sense. As lesbian literary history, here is an instant classic. Jane…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/22/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 142
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Carolyn Allen MBChB MRCP Locum Consultant, Lewisham Hospital



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Djuna Barnes and Bertha Harris


Reading Erotic/Following Djuna



Djuna Barnes


The Erotics of Nurture



Nightwood: Gender, Narcisism, and the Erotic Maternal in the Narrative of Nora Flood



Writing toward Nightwood: Seduction in the Little Girl Stories



Jeanette Winterson


The Erotics of Risk



Rebecca Brown


The Erotics of Excess and the Difficulties of Difference


Notesworks


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