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Following Djuna: Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss (Theories of Representation and Difference) Paperback - 1996

by Allen, Carolyn

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  • Title Following Djuna: Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss (Theories of Representation and Difference)
  • Author Allen, Carolyn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 142
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
  • Date 1996-02-22
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 025321047X_used
  • ISBN 9780253210470 / 025321047X
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.16 x 0.46 in (23.47 x 15.65 x 1.17 cm)
  • Reading level 1400
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in literature, Loss (Psychology) in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95023531
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.992

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From the rear cover

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.

About the author

CAROLYN ALLEN, Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, has published articles on 20th-century writers and on feminism and cultural theory. She is co-editor of Signs.