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Bezig met laden... Diana: A Strange Autobiography (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series)door Diana Frederics
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This is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos. Fearless and outspoken, it dares to reveal that hidden world where perfumed caresses and half-whispered endearments constitute the forbidden fruits in a Garden of Eden where men are never accepted. This is how Diana: A Strange Autobiography was described when it was published in paperback in 1952. The original 1939 hardcover edition carried with it a Publisher's Note: This is the autobiography of a woman who tried to be normal. In the book, Diana is presented as the unexceptional daughter of an unexceptional plutocratic family. During adolescence, she finds herself drawn with mysterious intensity to a girl friend. The narrative follows Diana's progress through college; a trial marriage that proves she is incapable of heterosexuality; intellectual and sexual education in Europe; and a series of lesbian relationships culminating in a final tormented triangular struggle with two other women for the individual salvation to be found in a happy couple. In her introduction, Julie Abraham argues that Diana is not really an autobiography at all, but a deliberate synthesis of different archetypes of this confessional genre, echoing, as it does, more than a half-dozen novels. Hitting all the high and low points of the lesbian novel, the book, Abraham illustrates, offers a defense of lesbian relationships that was unprecedented in 1939 and radical for decades afterwards. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.25)
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There are both reflections and actual incidents from the book that speak to the reader's heart. Our narrator realizes she has feelings for a fellow student and begins rearranging her schedule so she doesn't bump into her. She does everything possible to avoid placing herself in situations where she could make Ruth (the girl she likes) feel uncomfortable or make herself fall even harder. How many of us (really, our sexuality doesn't matter here) immediately try and squelch our true feelings when we like someone we know we shouldn't? Lots, of course, but when you read of Diana's experiences you feel as if no one has ever captured how you feel quite like she does.
Diana believes the most antiquated things about homosexuality, which isn't surprising considering the author was writing this in the 1930s. For every nutty idea (women are gay because they're brought up around boys growing up or lesbians just cannot stay in a committed relationship) there is a counter idea that is simply lovely and yet sensible at the same time:
"If love ever came to me, I would accept it. If it did not, my life would not be frustrated. Love, I would remember, was only one of many things, and sometimes, a very small one...I was sick of thoughts made of hope."
As it turns out, Diana ends up discovering a lot of what she believed about lesbians and love to be wrong. She struggles with loneliness and a broken heart for a long time before she finds the closest thing to a happy ending...a particularly unique thing for way back then. :) (