Telling Moments: Autobiographical Lesbian Short Stories.Edited by Lynda Hall Terrace/University of Wisconsin, $26.95 "After a messy ending, the thing to do is to get away," declares the unnamed "mademoiselle" in Emma Donoghue's haunting story "The Sanctuary of Hands." On a driving trip through the French Pyrenees, the narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. visits a troglodytic trog·lo·dyte n. 1. a. A member of a fabulous or prehistoric race of people that lived in caves, dens, or holes. b. A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish. 2. a. cave where, hand-in-hand with a retarded stranger who takes a fancy to her, she comes upon a wall of prehistoric handprints left behind by the original dwellers. Donoghue and the other 23 writers who contributed to this volume (Karla Jay Karla Jay (born February 22, 1947) is a professor of English and the director of the Women's Studies program at Pace University. A pioneer in the field of lesbian and gay studies, she is widely published. , Leslea Newman, and Sarah Schulman among them) take hold of the reader's hand as they elaborate in epilogues on the "real truths in the fictional retelling re·tell·ing n. A new account or an adaptation of a story: a retelling of a Roman myth. of lesbian lives." |
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