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Queering the moderns : poses/portraits/performances
- Title
- Queering the moderns : poses/portraits/performances / Anne Herrmann.
- Author
- Herrmann, Anne.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR478.H65 H47 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 197 pages : portraits; 22 cm
- Summary
- ""Queer" in the modernist period (1910-1945) means "strange, odd, out of sorts" and although it begins to refer to those who are queer sexually, it does not yet police a hetero-homosexual divide. It means crossing boundaries in unexpected directions, across the Atlantic, across the color line, across literary conventions that dictate that autobiographies can't be written by someone else.
- In this study, Anne Herrmann discusses six memoirs that rely on cross-gender and cross-racial identifications within their specific cultural contexts so that female aviators (Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham), "lesbian" auto/biographers (Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein) and male auto-ethnographers (James Weldon Johnson and Earl Lind - Ralph Werther) begin to "queer" the traditional spaces of modernism."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Homosexuality and literature > English-speaking countries > History > 20th century
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) > English-speaking countries
- Gay people's writings, American > History and criticism
- Gay people's writings, English > History and criticism
- 17.93 themes and motives in literature
- American literature
- English literature
- Gays' writings, American
- Gays' writings, English
- Homosexuality and literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Het vreemde
- Letterkunde
- Homoseksualiteit
- Amerikaans
- English-speaking countries
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-192) and index.
- Contents
- Amelia Earhart: the aviatrix as American dandy -- Beryl Markham:the female flyer as femme fatale -- Orlando as "imaginary portrait" -- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas as "portrait narration" -- The new negro as "ex-coloured man": a fictional autobiography -- The androgyne as "fairie": a self-authored case history.
- ISBN
- 0312233272
- 9780312233273
- 0333946944
- 9780333946947
- LCCN
- 00040487
- OCLC
- ocm44391471
- 44391471
- SCSB-1148330
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library