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An analysis of the representation of lesbian desire within the novel is produced; and the multi-faceted character of Jeanette, the protagonist and narrator of the story, is addressed through reference to the multiplicity of agency.
The final chapter, “‘A project that defies completion’: Desire, Fantasy, and Personal Utopia,” assesses the way in which desire launches a dynamics by which the subject is able to create an alternative location of personal utopia through the use of fantasy where his/her multiplicity may, in turn, be explored and celebrated. This personal utopia is successful precisely because subjectivity is as speculative as the concept of utopia itself, and both participate in the dynamics marked by desire.
The present work partakes in a multiplicity of meanings and readings, engaging with the elusiveness and open-endedness of desire, allowing its unpredictability to punctuate, in part, my own writing for, in the words of Catherine Belsey, “[w]riting about desire” is “compulsive, a challenge, self-indulgence, anxiety…” but “above all, [it is] a project that defies completion” (Desire 3).
Gemma López Sánchez
Barcelona, Spain