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Lesbian Desire and Mainstream Media: Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet on the Screen
Author(s) -
Lea Heiberg Madsen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
odisea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-1611
pISSN - 1578-3820
DOI - 10.25115/odisea.v0i11.291
Subject(s) - humanities , art , lesbian , art history , sociology , gender studies
The subversive potential and transformative strength of the neo-Victorian genre is explored and consolidated by writers such as Sarah Waters. In her debut novel Tipping the Velvet (1998) the author makes explicit what was virtually impossible to express in Victorian times, but also what is still struggling for socio-cultural recognition. However, can the TV adaptation of Waters’s lesbian Bildungsroman be said to achieve the same? This article explores the adaptation of the novel, broadcast on British television in 2002, and discusses whether or not its re-presentation of female same-sex erotics discredits the issue of lesbianism.Resumen: Gracias a Sarah Waters, entre otras, la crítica especializada ha reconocido la capacidad subversiva y transformadora del fenómeno conocido como Neo-Victorianism. En la novela Tipping the Velvet (1998) la autora hace explícito lo que era imposible expresar en la época victoriana, pero también lo que todavía no ha encontrado total reconocimiento desde el punto de vista social y culturalmente. Sin embargo, ¿se puede afirrmar que la adaptación televisiva de la novela resulta asimismo subversiva? Este artículo analiza la adaptación emitida en la televisión británica en 2002 y cuestiona si larepresentación del erotismo lésbico subraya la normalización de la figura lesbiana.

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