'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》（Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin）成为了公开讨论同性恋的借口，并在第28节的引入中达到高潮，该节明确将文学作为LGBTQ+身份和可见性的场所。“可以接受同性恋作为一种假装的家庭关系”引发的道德恐慌，是对女权主义者和LGBTQ+围绕父权和异性恋规范的社会动态进行的十年行动的直接反应。这一历史性时刻是我研究的起点。从对酷儿文学表达和历史教育的具体攻击开始，我的目标是追踪一个女同性恋作家的网络，她们除了持续参与酷儿和女权主义活动领域外，还试图通过将文学表达明确地根植于女同性恋历史中，来抵制政府批准的对酷儿曝光率的压制。围绕档案方法，我研究了这些社区如何通过离散的包容和排除来构建历史叙事。对这段近期历史的理解对于当前关于酷儿和变性人权利的辩论至关重要。我的研究——植根于档案，如下所述——将把文本恢复工作与女同性恋小说和女同性恋文学作品的重新语境化结合在一起。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，并致力于小说视角的恢复。档案不仅揭示了文学概念和传播的背景，而且阐明了未出版或受到审查的作品的空白。恢复的潜力表明该项目本身将如何积极参与历史和重新配置的过程。从根本上说，这个项目旨在学习20世纪后期在LGBTQ+文学史上的努力，以考虑在交叉女权主义运动中解决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造一直受到持续的批评关注，但女同性恋历史的同时努力却很少被作为一个独立的项目来探索。通过探索一个在今天的英国仍能感受到其影响的时刻，我旨在回答这样一个问题：出版网络是如何促进女同性恋历史叙事的制作和传播的。特别关注文学史，我将考虑虚构作品如何回应这种转向历史基础，并代表档案和出版的努力。这些问题通过关注权力动态和排他性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.