Diana: A Strange Autobiography (Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature)
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Product Description
The original 1939 hardcover edition carried with it a Publisher's Note: This is the autobiography of a woman who tried to be normal.
In the book, Diana is presented as the unexceptional daughter of an unexceptional plutocratic family. The narrative follows Diana's progress through college; a trial marriage that proves she is incapable of heterosexuality; intellectual and sexual education in Europe; and a series of lesbian relationships culminating in a final tormented triangular struggle with two other women for the individual salvation to be found in a happy couple.
In her introduction, Julie Abraham argues that Diana is not really an autobiography at all, but a deliberate synthesis of different archetypes of this confessional genre, echoing, as it does, more than a half-dozen novels. Hitting all the high and low points of the lesbian novel, the book, Abraham illustrates, offers a defense of lesbian relationships that was unprecedented in 1939 and radical for decades afterwards. Fearless and outspoken, it dares to reveal that hidden world where perfumed caresses and half-whispered endearments constitute the forbidden fruits in a Garden of Eden where men are never accepted.
This is how Diana: A Strange Autobiography was described when it was published in paperback in 1952. During adolescence, she finds herself drawn with mysterious intensity to a girl friend. This is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos.
Product Info
- Author
- Binding
- Paperback
- Dewey Decimal Number
- 813.52
- EAN
- 9780814726358
- Edition
- First Edition. first thus
- ISBN
- 0814726356
- Label
- NYU Press
- Manufacturer
- NYU Press
- Number Of Items
- 1
- Number Of Pages
- 240
- Product Group
- Book
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_BOOK
- Publication Date
- 1995-06-01
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Release Date
- 1995-06-01
- Studio
- NYU Press
- Title
- Diana: A Strange Autobiography (The Cutting Edge : Lesbian Life and Literature Series)
- ASIN
- 0814726356
- Sales Rank
- 1550
- Provider
- Amazon
- As of
- May 26, 2012, 6:32 am
