Loving Her Without Class: The Politics of Feminist Love in Ann Allen Shockley's Lesbian Novel.
This article draws attention to Ann Allen Shockley's Loving Her (1974/1997), the first known novel to highlight an interracial lesbian relationship, featuring Renay (Davis) Lee, a working-class black pianist, and her lover Terry Bluvard, an upper-class white writer. While previous critics have right...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Formations Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 57 - 76 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Spring 2010
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