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OverviewImpossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Reading through the lens of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Valerie Rohy considers texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kate Chopin, Henry James, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and Elizabeth Bishop.Addressing American ideologies of reproduction and representation, Impossible Women suggests that lesbian figures are made to symbolize both the unrepresentable and the failures of meaning inherent in language. Rohy traces the ways lesbian sexuality-relegated to the domain of the ineffable, yet endlessly subject to inscription-appears in tropes of transference and displacement, the disembodied voice, repetition-compulsion, and the uncanny. Impossible Women also asks what cultural work such figures perform, locating lesbian desire in American literary history and engaging issues of genre and narrative, social formations such as the rhetoric of the ""New Woman,"" and intersections of racism, sexism, and homophobia. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Valerie RohyPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780801486388ISBN 10: 0801486386 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 25 April 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsImpossible Women is brilliantly written and clear, a narrative intent on driving its reader to the core of arguments and to the end of the book, sure to become one of the seminal critical texts of the field. -Linda Wagner-Martin, Hanes Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Author InformationValerie Rohy is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont. She is coeditor, with Elizabeth Ammons, of American Local Color Writing, 1880–1920: An Anthology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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