Following Djuna
women lovers and the erotics of loss
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Author
Publication
1996 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana
Language
English
Word Count
35,500 words, Guess
Page Count
142 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL791037M
- ISBN-100253330238
- OCLC Control Number32821735
- OCLC Control Numberfollowingdjunawo0000alle
- Library of Congress Control Number95023531
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- LibraryThing194947
- Goodreads1380119
Classifications
- DDC810.9/9206643
- LCCPS153.L46 A45 1996
Description
Following Djuna reads contemporary novelists in the tradition of Djuna Barnes, arguing for the importance of women's fiction in understanding women's erotics - emotional and sexual exchanges between women. Barnes's Nightwood, with its experimental form and passionate language, has made its mark on contemporary writers, and Carolyn Allen argues that Harris, Winterson, and Brown continue Barnes's explorations of obsession, loss, excess, and power between women lovers. Allen stresses the importance of difference in lovers who are "like", and the influence of memory in the making of desire. At the same time, she illuminates the ongoing trade-offs between passion and comfort, and between loss and discovery as crucial to the intensity of women's erotics.
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- Theories of representation and difference
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- Following Djuna: women lovers and the erotics of loss
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