Jane Rule

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Jane Vance Rule , CM , OBC (born March 28, 1931 in Plainfield , New Jersey , † November 27, 2007 on Galiano Island , British Columbia ) was a Canadian author and LGBT activist.

biography

Rule was born in New Jersey in 1931. In her childhood she was dyslexic , in puberty she felt like a tomboy . After finishing school, Rule studied at Mills College in California . Rule graduated in 1952 and then taught English and biology at Concord Academy, a private girls' school in Concord, Massachusetts . During this time she also met Helen Sonthoff, a teacher of creative writing and literature. In 1956, Rule emigrated to Canada and Sonthoff joined her. There Rule taught in the following years at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver . In 1976, Rule moved to Galiano Island. Rule served on the board of directors of the Writers' Union of Canada. In her life she was a strong advocate for freedom of expression and LGBT rights. Rule wrote about lesbian love in her books and was openly lesbian. She was the first Canadian writer, according to novelist Susan Swan, to write about being lesbian as if it were part of normal life, without bias and without waving the political flag. The female characters were lesbians, which you noticed in the course of reading. But they weren't stories about what it's like to live as a lesbian. Rule also wrote for LGBT magazine The Body Politic . The 1987 novels Memory Board and 1989 After the Fire were both nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize .

Rule's first novel Desert of the Heart from 1964 was filmed by Donna Deitch in 1985 under the title Desert Hearts .

In 1998 Rule was awarded the Order of British Columbia ( OBC ) and in 2007 the Order of Canada ( CM ). Until her death in 2000, Rule lived with her partner Helen Sonthoff.

Works

  • Desert of the Heart. 1964
    • Translated from Katharina cap: Desert of the heart. Daphne, Göttingen 1989
  • This is not for you. 1970
  • Against the Season. 1971
  • Lesbian Images. 1975
    • Images and shadows. The lesbian woman in literature. Amazonen Frauenverlag, Berlin 1979
  • Theme for Diverse Instruments. 1975
  • The Young in One Another's Arms. 1977
  • Contract With the World. 1980
  • Outlander. 1981
    • Translator: Susanne Amrain , Susanne Stemann: Outlander. Short stories and essays. Daphne, Göttingen 1986
  • Inland Passage and Other Stories. 1982
  • A hot-eyed moderate. 1985
  • Memory board. 1987
  • After the fire. 1989
  • Contributed in: Aphrodisiac 1. Stories from Christopher Street Magazine . Knaur, Munich 1986 ISBN 3426013525
  • Loving the Difficult , 2008

Awards

literature

  • Ellen Bosman: Jane Rule Publishes Lesbian Images. In: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Events. Salem Press, Pasadena (California) 2006, pp. 287-289
  • Linda M. Morra: Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth Century Canadian Women's Authorship. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2014 ISBN 978-1-4426-2642-3 Abstract study on E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), Emily Carr (1871–1945), Sheila Watson (1909–1998), Jane Rule and M NourbeSe Philip (born 1947).
  • Christina Strobel: Reconsidering conventions. Jane Rule's writing and sexual identity in North American feminist theory and fiction. Wißner, Augsburg 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rule, The Advocate, November 30, 2007
  2. ^ Sonya L. Jones: Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II: History and Memory. Haworth Press, 1998, ISBN 0-7890-0349-X , p. 87.
  3. ↑ Stories by Edmund White , Kate Millett , Andrew Holleran , Felice Picano , Jane Rule, Christopher Bram, Fran Ross, Daniel Curzon, Noel Ryan
  4. ^ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna: 21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In: Lambda Literary. February 18, 2010, accessed March 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rule, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rule, Jane Vance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian author
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Plainfield , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 2007
Place of death Galiano Island , British Columbia