'Making' History: Archives and Activism in British Lesbian Literature, 1984-2003.

20世纪80年代末，儿童读物《珍妮与埃里克和马丁生活在一起》成为仇视同性恋的公共话语的借口，最终导致第28节的引入，该节明确将文学作为LGBTQ+身份和可见性的场所。人们认为同性恋是一种伪装的家庭关系，这种道德恐慌是对十年来女权主义者和LGBTQ+激进主义的直接反应，这些激进主义围绕着父权制和异性恋的社会动态。这一历史时刻是我研究的起点。从对同性恋文学表达和历史教育的这一具体攻击开始，我的目标是追踪一个女同性恋作家网络，他们除了持续参与同性恋和女权主义活动领域外，还试图通过将文学表达植根于明确的女同性恋历史来抵制政府批准的对同性恋能见度的压制。围绕着档案方法，我研究了这些社区是如何通过离散的包容和排除来构建历史叙事的。理解这段近代史对于目前关于同性恋和跨性别者权利的辩论至关重要。我的研究--植根于下面概述的档案--将把文本恢复的工作与女同性恋小说和女同性恋文学作品的重新语境结合在一起。档案和文学方法的结合使我能够重新审视酷儿历史的构建，并致力于恢复小说视角。档案不仅揭示了文学概念和传播的背景，而且照亮了未出版或受到审查的作品的空白。恢复的潜力表明这个项目本身将如何积极参与历史化和重新配置的过程。最基本的是，这个项目旨在从20世纪末LGBTQ+文学史的努力中学习，以考虑在跨部门女权运动中处理当代问题的历史方法的潜力。虽然这一时期的女权主义出版和历史创作一直受到批评家的关注，但同时进行的女同性恋史研究很少被作为一个独立的项目来探讨。通过探索时至今日仍能在英国感受到影响的某个时刻，我的目的是回答出版网络如何促进特别是女同性恋历史叙事的制作和传播的问题。随着文学史的特别关注，我将考虑虚构作品如何响应这一转向，以历史为基础，代表档案和出版努力。这些问题通过关注权力动态和排外意识形态在历史叙事本身及其传播中的作用而联系在一起。

In the late 1980s, the children's book Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin served as the pretext for a homophobic public discourse, culminating in the introduction of Section 28, which explicitly centred literature as a site of LGBTQ+ identity and visibility. The moral panic around the 'acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship' was a direct reaction against a decade of feminist and LGBTQ+ activism around patriarchal andheteronormative social dynamics. This historical moment is where my research begins. Starting from this specific attack on queer literary expression and historical education, I aim to trace a network of lesbian authors who, in addition to their ongoing involvement in both queer and feminist activist spheres, attempted to resist the government-sanctioned suppression of queer visibility by rooting literary expression in an explicitly lesbian history. Built around archival approaches, I examine how these communities worked to construct historical narratives through discrete inclusions and exclusions.An understanding of this recent history is crucial to debates on queer and trans rights in the present. My research - rooted in archives, outlined below - will bring together work of textual recovery with a recontextualisation of lesbian fiction and lesbian literary production. The combination of archival and literary approaches enables me to re-examine the construction of queer history and to work on the recovery of novel perspectives. Archives not only reveal background on the conception and dissemination of literature, but illuminate the gaps of works which were not published or were subject to censorship. The potential of recovery demonstrates how this project will itself actively partake in the processes of historicisation and reconfiguration.Fundamentally, this project aims to learn from late 20th-century endeavours in LGBTQ+ literary history to consider the potential of a historical approach in tackling contemporary issues within intersectional feminist movements. While feminist publishing and history-making of this period have been subject to sustained critical attention, concurrent efforts of lesbian history have rarely been explored as a distinct project. By exploring a moment in time whose effects are still felt in Britain today, I aim to answer the question of how publishing networks facilitated the production and dissemination of specifically lesbian historical narratives. With a particular focus on literary history, I will consider how fictional work responded to this turn to historical grounding and represented archival and publishing efforts. These questions are tied together by an attention to the role of power dynamics and exclusionary ideologies in both the historical narratives themselves and their dissemination.