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The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction

A groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, The Vintage Book of International  Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices — from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents — and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes.

We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married Indian woman who pursues pleasure with her female lover under the shadow of her husbands suspicious rage.  We meet a teacher in Barcelona who locks herself up in her grandmother's house with her young Columbian student, and witness a Slovenian woman's rendezvous with her long dead lover.

This collection includes the work of familiar writers, as well as a number never before published in English. From the West Indies to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Latin America to South Africa, the distinctive stories found in these pages evoke the diverse political, cultural, emotional, and sexual landscapes of each writer's life.  A groundbreaking volume from the Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, who also wrote the introduction, this collections evokes the universal urgency of persistent desire.

Table of Contents:

Mary Dorcey, Ireland from A Noise from the Woodshed

Makeda Sivera, Jamaica Caribbean Chameleon

Mireille Best, France Stéphanie's Book

Christina Peri Rossi, Uruguay Final Judgement and Singing in the Desert

Shani Mootoo, India-Trinidad-CanadaLemon Scent

Marguerite Yourcenar, BelgiumSappho or Suicide

Emma Donoghue, IrelandLooking for Petronilla

Sylvia Molloy, Argentinafrom Certificate of Absence

Dale Gunthorp, South Africa Gypsophila

Karen Williams, South Africa The Came at Dawn

Cynthia Price, South Africa Lesbian Bedrooms

Alifa Rifaat, EgyptMy World of the Unknown

Yasmin V. Tambiah, Sri Lanka The Civil War, Sandalwood, Transl(iter)ation I, and Transl(iter)ation II (for Aruna and Giti)

Dionne Brand, Trinidad Madame Alaird's Breasts

Violette Leduc, France from L'Aphyxie

Anchee Min, Chinafrom Red Azalea

Gerd Brantenberg, Norway from Four Winds

Esther Tusquets, Spain from The Same Sea as Every Summer

Karen-Susan Fessel, Germany Lost Faces

Mar$#237;a Eugenia Alegría Nuñez, Cuba The Girl Typist Who Worked for a Provincial Ministry of Culture

Ngahuia Te Awekatuku, Aotearoa/New Zealand Paretipua, Old Man Tuna, andWatching the Big Girls

Dacia Maraini, Italy from Letters to Marina

Rosamaría Roffiel, Mexico Forever Lasts Only a Full Moon

Anna Blaman, Hollandfrom Lonely Adventure

Christa Winsloe, Germany from The Child Manuela

Achy Obejas, Cuba Waters

Nicole Brossard, Canadafrom Mauve Desert

Gila Svirsky, Israel Meeting Natalia

Maureen Duffy, Englandfrom The Microcosm

Jeanne D'Arc Jutras, Canada from Georgie Suzana Tratni, Slovenia Under the Ironwood Trees

Elena Georgiou, CyprusAphrodite's Vision

Etel Adnan, Lebanon from In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country

Gina Schein, Australia Minnie Gets Married

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 368
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780679759522
  • Genres
  • lgbt, fiction, lesbian, queer, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 1999