1st Edition

Sexual Sameness (Routledge Revivals) Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing

Edited By Joseph Bristow Copyright 2014
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1992, Sexual Sameness examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexuality. Examining such writers as E.M. Forster, James Baldwin, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Audre Lourde, this wide-ranging book demonstrates how literature has been one of the few cultural spaces in which sexual outsiders have been able to explore... Read more

Notes on contributors;  Acknowledgments;  1. Introduction Joseph Bristow  2. The cultural politics of perversion: Augustine, Shakespeare, Freud and Foucault Jonathan Dollimore  3. ‘Poets and lovers evermore’: the poetry and journals of Michael Field Chris White  4. Wilde, Dorian Gray, and gross indecency Joseph Bristow  5. Forster’s self-erasure: Maurice and the scene of masculine love John Fletcher  6. What is not said: a study of textual inversion Dianna Collecott  7. ‘If I saw you would you kiss me?’: sapphism and the subversiveness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Sherron E. Knopp  8. Sylvia Townsend Warner and the counterplot of lesbian fiction Terry Castle  9. The African and the pagan in gay Black literature David Bergman  10. Who was afraid of Joe Orton Alan Sinfield  11. Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival: Broumas, Rukeser, H.D., Rich, Lorde Liz Yorke  12. Reading awry: Joan Nestle and the recontextualisation of heterosexuality Clare Whatling;  Further reading;  Notes;  Index

Biography

Bristow, Joseph