Valencia (novel)
| Valencia | |
|---|---|
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Seal Press |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 216 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-58005-238-X |
Valencia is a 2000 Lambda Literary Award-winning[1] novel by Michelle Tea. It is an autobiographical and picaresque detailing the narrator's experiences in San Francisco's queer subculture. It includes experimentation with consensual sado-masochism after the author meets Petra, a knife-wielder; as well as Willa, a tormented poet; and Iris, a young butch who escaped from a repressive southern upbringing to San Francisco [2]
Film adaptation
During 2011, Valencia was adapted into an arthouse film, with twenty-one different lesbian and queer directors enlisted to film each of the book's twenty-one chapters within a series of short film segments. They include Cheryl Dunye, Courtney Trouble, trans film maker Amos Mac, documentarian Hilary Goldberg and others.[3] The film premiered at the Frameline Film Festival in May 2013.[4]
References
- ↑ http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/09/lambda-literary-awards-2000/
- ↑ Michelle Tea: Valencia: Seattle: Seal Press: 2001: back cover
- ↑ Kristin Smith: "Valencia Reimagined" Curve: November 2011: 74-75
- ↑ "Film Based On Michelle Tea's 'Valencia' Premiering At Frameline". SFist, May 9, 2013.