Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres English Elizabeth
Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres English Elizabeth Makiko Minow coined the phrase 'lesbian modernism' in 1989. At the same time, there has been ongoing critical debate about…
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Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres English Elizabeth
Makiko Minow coined the phrase 'lesbian modernism' in 1989. At the same time, there has been ongoing critical debate about what constitutes a lesbian modernist text, who counts as a lesbian modernist author, and how lesbian modernism relates to queer and trans modernism. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and expand the modernist canon.
Individual chapters investigate what work the concept of 'lesbian modernism' has done in the past, how its boundaries have been defined and contested, and what voices have been included and excluded. This edited volume presents twelve newly commissioned chapters that reassess and interrogate the meanings, uses and limitations of lesbian modernism by exploring a broad range of authors, genres and histories. As a whole, the book demonstrates how the concept of lesbian modernism can be mobilised in new and