After Sappho Summary
Selby Wynn Schwartz

Everything you need to understand or teach After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz.

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After Sappho Overview

In After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz uses the lives of many famous lesbians and feminists—including Virginia Woolf, Lina Poletti, and Sibilla Aleramo—to assemble a complex and fragmentary novel that challenges the novelistic form itself. Throughout the narrative, Schwartz explores themes of queer love, political repression, and the overwhelming power of art.