The lesbian South : southern feminists, the women in print movement, and the queer literary canon /

The lesbian South : southern feminists, the women in print movement, and the queer literary canon /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Harker, Jaime, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Description:	239 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Lesbian authors -- Southern States. American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism. Lesbians -- Southern States -- Social life and customs. Feminism and literature -- Southern States. American literature. Feminism and literature. Lesbian authors. Lesbians -- Social life and customs. Southern States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11694241

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ISBN:	9781469643359 1469643359 9781469643342 1469643340 9781469643366
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Much of the scholarship published on gay writers in the American South has focused on men, eliding the vibrant history of lesbian authorship and print culture. In The lesbian South, Jamie Harker explores the literature of lesbian-feminist writers, feminist print culture, presses, and bookstores in the post-1960s American South. Harker argues that lesbian presses and bookstores enabled the development of feminist reading and writing communities. These communities both challenged and nurtured lesbian writers, while also encouraging a feminist-inspired racial activism and individual autonomy"--

Table of Contents:

Southern, feminist, queer: the archive of southern lesbian feminism
Creating a southern lesbian feminist culture: the women in print movement and the battle of the literary
The radical South: politics and the lesbian feminist imaginary
Queer sexuality and the lesbian feminist South
Women's space, queer space: communes, landykes, and queer contact zones in the lesbian feminist South
Lesfic: alternative publishing, activism, and queer women writers.