Gypsies and Lesbian Desire
Gypsies and Lesbian Desire: Vita Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, and Virginia Woolf Author(s): Kirstie Blair Reviewed work(s): Source: Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Summer, 2004), pp. 141-166 Published by: Hofstra University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4149276 . Accessed: 12/03/2013 05:26
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Gypsiesand LesbianDesire: Vita Sackville-West,Violet Trefusis, andVirginiaWoolf
Kirstie Blair
All Long Barn,Knole, Richmond and Bloomsbury. too familiar and entrapping. Either I am at home, and you are strange; you or are at home, and I am strange; neither is the real essentialperso son, and confusion results. But in the Basqueprovinces,among a host of zingaros, we should both be equallystrangeand equallyreal. 54 --Sackville-West to Woolf, Letters tries Woolf to run away When Vita Sackville-West to persuade Virginia with the "zingaros," she alludes to a discourse evident Spanishgypsies, both in her earlierrelationships with women and in her novels Challenge and Heritage, where gypsiesrepresentliberation,excitement, danger,and the free expressionof sexuality. Sackville-West's fantasyof homelessness the gypsiesprovidesthe imaginedmeansfor two women loversto among value their estrangement from
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Gypsiesand LesbianDesire: Vita Sackville-West,Violet Trefusis, andVirginiaWoolf
Kirstie Blair
All Long Barn,Knole, Richmond and Bloomsbury. too familiar and entrapping. Either I am at home, and you are strange; you or are at home, and I am strange; neither is the real essentialperso son, and confusion results. But in the Basqueprovinces,among a host of zingaros, we should both be equallystrangeand equallyreal. 54 --Sackville-West to Woolf, Letters tries Woolf to run away When Vita Sackville-West to persuade Virginia with the "zingaros," she alludes to a discourse evident Spanishgypsies, both in her earlierrelationships with women and in her novels Challenge and Heritage, where gypsiesrepresentliberation,excitement, danger,and the free expressionof sexuality. Sackville-West's fantasyof homelessness the gypsiesprovidesthe imaginedmeansfor two women loversto among value their estrangement from