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T1 Go West! (Village): Queer Displacement and New York as the Liberatory West in American Lesbian Fiction
T2 ¡Ve al Oeste! (de Nueva York): Desplazamiento Queer y Nueva York como el Oeste liberador en la ficción Lésbica Americana
A1 García-Medina, Patricia
K1 Lesbian Fiction
K1 The American West
K1 Queer Displacement
K1 Lesbian Studies
K1 Queer studies
AB This article analyzes the idea of the American West as the promise of hope for freedom, asit was repossessed by United States queer literature after the 1950s. Hope is promised as atotal contrast from tradition: for queer, specifically lesbian characters, it switches Eastwards,looking for the dreamland not on going west but on going to New York. Queer narrativessince the 1950s draw on the displacement of the lesbian characters from their homes, forc-ing them to relocate, recurrently the West Village in New York. The analysis of storylinerepetitions present in representative lesbian fiction throughout the decades will be done onseveral works. I show that the ideal of the West, core to the construction of the AmericanDream, was reversed in American lesbian fiction, relocating hope after displacement to thequeer populated West Village in New York City.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37137
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37137
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 24-nov-2024