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.
By:
Naomi Holoch
Edited by:
John Nestle
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 425g
ISBN: 9780679759522
ISBN 10: 0679759522
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 March 2002
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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-Canada Lemon Scent Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgium Sappho or Suicide Emma Donoghue, Ireland Looking for Petronilla Sylvia Molloy, Argentina from Certificate of Absence Dale Gunthorp, South Africa Gypsophila Karen Williams, South Africa The Came at Dawn Cynthia Price, South Africa Lesbian Bedrooms Alifa Rifaat, Egypt My 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, China from Red Azalea Gerd Brantenberg, Norway from Four Winds Esther Tusquets, Spain from The Same Sea as Every Summer Karen-Susan Fessel, Germany Lost Faces María 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, and Watching the Big Girls Dacia Maraini, Italy from Letters to Marina Rosamaría Roffiel, Mexico Forever Lasts Only a Full Moon Anna Blaman, Holland from Lonely Adventure Christa Winsloe, Germany from The Child Manuela Achy Obejas, Cuba Waters Nicole Brossard, Canada from Mauve Desert Gila Svirsky, Israel Meeting Natalia Maureen Duffy, England from The Microcosm Jeanne D’Arc Jutras, Canada from Georgie Suzana Tratnik, Slovenia Under the Ironwood Trees Elena Georgiou, Cyprus Aphrodite’s Vision Etel Adnan, Lebanon from In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country Gina Schein, Australia Minnie Gets Married Bibliography Suggested Additional Reading Acknowledgements Permissions Acknowledgements
Naomi Holoch is co-editor, with Jon Nestle, of the Women on Women series of anthologies of American lesbian short fiction and the author of short stories and a novel, Offseason.She teaches French language and literature, lesbian and gay fiction, and fiction writing at SUNY-Purchase. Joan Nestle, author of the award-winning A Restricted Country and A Fragile Union and editor of The Persistent Desire- A Femme-Butch Reader, is also co-founder of the New York-based Lesbian Herstory Archives.Along with Naomi Holoch, she has edited three volumes of Women on Women anthologies.She also had the honor of working with John Preston on Sister and Brother- Lesbians and Gay Men Talk about Their Lives Together.In 1996 she was awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Literature by the Publishing Triangle. For close to thirty years, she taught writing in the SEEK Program at Queens College, CUNY.
- Winner of Lambda Literary Award 1999
- Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Fiction Anthology) 1999
