Difference In View: Women And ModernismGabriele Griffin This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism, its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as race, class and gender, and its exclusive focus both on predominately male writers, poetry and prose fiction by highlighting the diversity of cultural production in the modernist period. This book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines. The book investigates how women usually constructed as "others", themselves construct others in their work in a period prominently concerned with the construction of self as an issue. This diversity offers a new format of reading modernism in a cross-disciplinary context. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Europe in the Novels of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen | 13 |
The Other Other or More of the Same? Womens Representations of Homosexual Men | 23 |
The Opposing Selves of Vita SackvilleWest | 32 |
The Collision of Past and Present in the Fiction of Djuna Barnes | 41 |
Men and Women Writing the Self in the 1930s | 48 |
Dora Marsden and the Egoist | 64 |
Leonora Carringtons Writing and Paintings 193740 | 78 |
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