Chicana Ways - Aletta

AnyBody's Concerns 6(2003)
Reviews Abstract
Review: Griffin,
Gabriele, ed. Who's Who
in Gay and Lesbian
Writing. London:
Routledge, 2002.
(Reviewed by Isabel
Karremann, University of
Erlangen, Germany).
http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/anybody/articles.htm (4 van 7)31-3-2005 18:21:39
Literature at the
University of Cologne and
plans her master thesis
on A.S. Byatt.
"Far from establishing a separate
and separatist gay and lesbian
canon (as the title might indicate)
Griffin thus aims at imploding the
notion of a "high-brow" canon
itself by juxtaposing homosexual
and heterosexual writers, ancient
and very contemporary ones, texts
from "high" and popular culture
(xi). [...] What makes the Who's
Who interesting for all already
working in the field of GLQ
studies, or looking for an
introduction to it, is precisely
that it offers informative, well
researched articles on gay and
lesbian writing of the twentieth
century, and especially on
contemporary writers.
particular ways of doing
things, quite limited
patriarchal models. It's
about trying to bring that
female emotional energy alive
in theatre and to infiltrate
theatre. I will continue to
do this through the rest of
my life. And if I do not get
produced because of it,
that's not going to stop me.
I've got a real mission
here."
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