Ready Reference Treatise: Rubyfruit Jungle

By Raja Sharma

“Rubyfruit Jungle” by Rita Mae Brown was first published in 1973. It is the author’s first published novel. It is, in fact, the first novel of its day for portraying lesbianism explicitly.

Rita Brown draws upon the account of her youth and her emergence as a lesbian author. “Rubyfruit Jungle” is a coming-of-age autobiographical novel.

The title itself is a quite controversial according to some critics because ‘Rubyfruit jungle’ is a slang term for the female sex organs, the genitals.

Ready Reference Treatise: Rubyfruit Jungle
Copyright
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Aug 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310002427

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Chapter One: Introduction

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown was first published in 1973. It is the author’s first published novel. It is, in fact, the first novel of its day for portraying lesbianism explicitly.

Rita Brown draws upon the account of her youth and her emergence as a lesbian author. Rubyfruit Jungle is a coming-of-age autobiographical novel.

The title itself is a quite controversial according to some critics because ‘Rubyfruit jungle’ is a slang term for the female sex organs, the genitals.

It is a coming-of-age story that describes her development as an aspiring artist and a lesbian woman in the middle of the 20th century. There is no doubt that it is a book of its time.

Rita Mae Brown, the author of the novel, was brought up in the segregated South between 1950s and 1960s. She was unable to get personal and professional freedom owing the widespread prejudice in the society in that part of the world.

Chapter Two: Plot Overview

Molly Bolt, the narrator and protagonist of the novel, is similar to Rita Mae Brown. The author is also a lesbian. She was born in southern Pennsylvania. In her adolescence, she moved to Florida.

Having gone through the novel, it becomes obvious that Molly Bolt is in several ways the fictional version of the author. She has many traits of the author’s own life.

It is noticeable that both Rita Mae Brown and Molly Bolt, the protagonist of the novel, are adopted as infants. They are teased and called