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- The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
- The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Reading Ancient and Classical Cultures
- Part II Renaissance and Early Modern
- Part III Enlightenment Cultures
- Part IV Queer Modernisms
- 18 Turn-of-the-Century Decadence and Aestheticism
- 19 Black Socks, Green Threads: On Proust and the Hermeneutics of Inversion
- 20 “This Sudden Silence”: A Brief History of the Literature of Caribbean Women Who Love Women
- 21 Modernist Poetry
- 22 Queer, Cosmopolitan
- Part V Geographies of Same-Sex Desire in the Modern World
- Part VI Genres of the Present
- Index
20 - “This Sudden Silence”: A Brief History of the Literature of Caribbean Women Who Love Women
from Part IV - Queer Modernisms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
- The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Reading Ancient and Classical Cultures
- Part II Renaissance and Early Modern
- Part III Enlightenment Cultures
- Part IV Queer Modernisms
- 18 Turn-of-the-Century Decadence and Aestheticism
- 19 Black Socks, Green Threads: On Proust and the Hermeneutics of Inversion
- 20 “This Sudden Silence”: A Brief History of the Literature of Caribbean Women Who Love Women
- 21 Modernist Poetry
- 22 Queer, Cosmopolitan
- Part V Geographies of Same-Sex Desire in the Modern World
- Part VI Genres of the Present
- Index
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- The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature , pp. 363 - 377Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014