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Rubyfruit Jungle Lesson Plan
41,501 words, approx. 138 pages
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Rubyfruit Jungle Information
534 words, approx. 2 pages
 Rubyfruit Jungle is the first novel (1973) by Rita Mae Brown, remarkable for its explicit lesbianism. The novel is a bildungsroman/autobiographical (some have suggested picaresque) account of Brown's youth and emergence as a lesbian author. The term...



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 The Independent - London
The jungle:
03/11/1997: 556 words, approx. 2 pages Widespread bullying has turned a jail for young offenders into a "jungle" in which the "strong prey on the weak" and inmates have to "physically fight to survive", the Chief Inspector of Prisons reveals today in a highly critical report. Sir David Ramsbotham...
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 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Into the jungle
09/15/2003: 1,297 words, approx. 4 pages Into the jungle In Costa Rican rain forest, students learn global perspective on local problems By SUSANNE QUICK squick@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Monday, September 15, 2003 La Virgen de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica -- Whitewater rafting, swan- diving into jungle swimming holes...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Terry Curtis Fox
420 words, approx. 1 pages
 Rubyfruit is the thrice-told 20th-century tale: Sensitive member of outside group heads toward American society and lives to tell the tale. We've had it from immigrants, blacks, and women, so it's no surprise we'd find it from gays. Rubyfruit starts with early childhood and proceeds—in picaresque fashion—through adolescence, awakening sexuality (there's a very early, very funny exploration of lesbianism as well as a soon-cast-off heterosexlife), the inevitable trip ...
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Critical Essay by Jane Rule
307 words, approx. 1 pages
 For those who think fiction is not the place to sermonize, Rubyfruit Jungle is often too blatantly preachy. Molly, the main character, has been a radical lesbian from birth, refusing all the conventional limitations of being a girl. In play she says, "I got to be the doctor because I'm the smart one and being a girl don't matter." Faced with the requirement to please others, she counters with, "I care if I like me, that's what I really care about." These asse...
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Critical Essay by John Fludas
212 words, approx. 1 pages
 Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle was an upstart in the publishing world…. Six of One is a bright and worthy successor. Nickel, a young woman whom we just might confuse with Rita Mae Brown, returns to her hometown, the jaunty Runnymede on the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. It is a madcap mixture of North and South, folk spunk and high elegance, and defiantly its own place. The author explores the town's cultural psychology like an American Evelyn Waugh, finding dignity and beauty without...


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Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown | |
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About 79 pages (23,808 words) in 6 products |
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