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Patricia Juliana Smith
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 The
Queer Sixties by Patricia Juliana Smith
(Editor)
As the 1960s recede
further into our collective memory, curiosity and nostalgia for
this groovy, flower-powered decade persists. Many books have
charted the social history of this tumultuous time, but none have
provided queer readings of the icons and iconclasts that peopled
its stage.
The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive
group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s
studies, and proposes new and different ways of looking at the
queer cultural and subcultural expression of the last decade
before the closet doors swung open. A magical mystery tour, this
collection reveals the queer in the Beatles and Jim Morrison,
unearths the cultural power of lesbian and gay pulp fiction, and
reads the queer in Myra Breckinridge, In Cold Blood, and
Another Country, among others. Imbued with the zeitgeist of
the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the
persistence of the queer imaginary.
Contributors: Blake Allmendinger, David Bergman,
Joseph Bristow, Kelly Cresap, William A. Cohen, Francesca Coppa,
Douglas Eisner, Yvonne C. Keller, Ricardo Ortiz, Jennifer A. Rich,
William Scroogie, Ann Shillinglaw and Laura Winkiel.
 Lesbian
Panic : Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction by
Patricia Juliana Smith
"Smith´s wise, provocative, and readable
volume explores the Œdisruptive action or reaction that occurs
when a [female] character - or, conceivably, an author - is either
unable or unwilling to confront or reveal her own lesbianism or
lesbian desire.´ . . . The author addresses the work of eminent
modernists (e.g., Woolf, Spark, Lessing, Bowen) along with more
experimental narratives (. . . Emma Tennant, Fay Weldon, Jeanette
Winterson). . . . Smith resists easy explanations by addressing
the political and cultural context of narrative ideologies. . . .A
genuine addition to lesbian and narrative studies and a balancing
vision to politically motivated criticism."
– Choice
"Should interest, provoke, and delight many
readers--not simply for its illuminating and stylish readings of
Woolf, Bowen, Spark, and many others, but for its compelling
larger theme: that 'lesbian panic' must be considered a preeminent
plot-shaping force in modernist and postmodern British
fiction."
–Terry Castle, Stanford University
"A genuine addition to lesbian and
narrative studies and a balancing vision to politically motivated
criticism."
– Choice
For Smith, "lesbian panic" is often a fear of losing
one's identity and value within the heterosexual paradigm. This
book traces the history of "lesbian panic" through key
works: The Voyage Out and Mrs. Dalloway; The Little
Girls and Eva Trout; King of a Rainy Country; The Golden Notebook;
and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
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Organizations & Institutions
Hofstra University
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Fields of Study
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20th century
British literature |
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Queer Cultural
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Published Works: Books
Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith,
eds. En
Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1995).
Patricia Juliana Smith. Lesbian
Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fictions
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Patricia Juliana Smith, ed. The
Queer Sixties (New York and London: Routledge,
1999).
Patricia Juliana Smith, ed. The
Book of Gay and Lesbian Quotations (New York: Three
Rivers/Random House, 1999)
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Current Projects
 | Authored book on the "Permissive
Society" of 1960s Britain in literature and culture. |
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Edited volume of essays on Queerness and Catholicism in
literature. |
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Edited volume of essays on Lesbian Modernism and the Problem of
National Identity |
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