| Popis: |
When Ann Bannon’s five lesbian ‘pulp’ novels,1 written and first published in the late 1950s, were reprinted in the early 1980s by Naiad lesbian press in the United States, they reappeared at an opportune moment. One of the most compelling concerns of lesbian feminism this decade has been with the writing of a history of our own. The few historical documents that are available to lesbians, as part of this production of a history, are frequently the subject of wide debate as to their meanings and political implications. Think, for example, of the ongoing contest to establish a definitive reading of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness.2 Bannon’s novels, for the most part situated in the lesbian bar culture of New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1950s, are becoming the site of a similar historical debate. |
