Girl Boy Girl: how I became JT Leroy by Savannah Knoop
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Category: Literary Studies
In Girl Boy Girl, Knoop tells her side of the story, revealing how she came to portray the young trans hustler turned literary wunderkind - a persona created by her sister-in-law, Laura Albert, to help sell her books. Much more than an inside look at one of the most famous literary hoaxes of all time, t ...Show more
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
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Category: Literary Studies
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving ...Show more
Inseparable - Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
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Category: Literary Studies
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Room, Inseparable explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature. A revelation of a centuries-old literary tradition - brilliant, amusing, and until now, deliberately overlooked. Love between women crops up throughout l ...Show more
Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions by Paulina Palmer
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Category: Literary Studies
Tracing the growth of lesbian Gothic fiction over the 25 years since the advent of the Women's Movement and Gay Liberation in the 1970s, this text discusses a wide selection of novels and stories, contextualizing and re-evaluating them in the light of changing currents in lesbian/queer culture and polit ...Show more
Lesbian Modernism : Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction by Elizabeth English
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction by Patricia Julianna Smith
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Category: Literary Studies
For Smith, "lesbian panic" is often a fear of losing one's identity and value within the heterosexual paradigm. This book traces the history of "lesbian panic" through key works: The Voyage Out and Mrs. Dalloway; The Little Girls and Eva Trout; King of a Rainy Country; The Golden Notebook; and The Prime ...Show more
Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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Category: Literary Studies
Searching for an introduction to the shadowy, intriguing world of early 20th century gay-themed fiction? In Lost Gay Novels, respected pop culture historian Anthony Slide resurrects fifty early 20th century American novels with gay themes or characters and discusses them in carefully researched, engagin ...Show more
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin
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Category: Literary Studies
In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodóvar, born nearly a hundred years later. Tóibín studies how ...Show more
Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty by Gilles Deleuze and Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch by Gilles Deleuze; Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
In his stunning essay, "Coldness and Cruelty, " Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of the late 19th-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and ma ...Show more
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
This title features with an introduction by Simon Callow. In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his s ...Show more
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by Octavia Estelle Butler
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Category: Literary Studies
Octavia E. Butler's work broke innumerable barriers and helped open the field of science fiction to writers and readers it had never had before. As the first Black writer to win the coveted Nebula and Hugo Awards, her courage and vision left a peerless legacy for fans not just of science fiction, but of ...Show more