ABSTRACT
In 1993 Terry castle stated that ‘the concept of “lesbian fiction,” one has to conclude, remains somewhat undertheorised', and it appears critics are still debating what constitutes lesbian fiction today. Lesbian literary criticism has been engaged in a process of revising the heterosexist bias that has existed in academic attempts to locate women's history into discourses of heteronormativity. This scholarship has re-engaged with historical accounts of female sexuality and questioned the heterosexual assumptions imposed by previous critics. Lesbian women constantly navigate a geography of fear that decrees where and what spaces might allow them to express themselves without fear of negative consequences. Subaltern groups that are refused access to hegemonic power and privilege often occupy a liminal state. In suggesting the overlap between the indeterminate threshold of the liminal space and its ambiguously queer potentiality to examine the dynamics of space and its relationship to lesbianism.
