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The Lesbian SouthSouthern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon$
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The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon

Jaime Harker

Print publication date: 2018

Print ISBN-13: 9781469643359

Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: May 2019

DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469643359.001.0001

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Queer Sexuality and the Lesbian Feminist South

Queer Sexuality and the Lesbian Feminist South

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(p.99) 3 Queer Sexuality and the Lesbian Feminist South
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The Lesbian South
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Jaime Harker

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University of North Carolina Press
DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469643359.003.0004

This chapter explores the central role of transgressive sexuality in the literary creations of Southern lesbian feminists, both in their embrace of grotesque sexual southernness and their critiques of the intersection of sexuality and power. Most Southern feminist writers embraced the Southern grotesque to explore a wide range of hitherto unspeakable sexual practices.

Keywords:   Southern gothic, grotesque, queer, Bertha Harris, Dorothy Allison, Cris South, Ann Allen Shockley, Rita Mae Brown

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