Modernist Women Writers and War : Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein


Julie. Goodspeed-Chadwick
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Baton Rouge : : LSU Press, , 2011.
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1 online resource (274 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Circumventing the Circumscription of Marginalization: Implicit Critiques of War and Trauma in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood; Chapter 2 Validating Female War Experience through Literary Witnessing: The Poetics of the Poet-Prophet and the Politics of Trauma and Healing in H.D.'s Trilogy; Chapter 3 A War Heroine in the Domestic Economy: The Embodied Female Survivor in Gertrude Stein's Mrs. Reynolds; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors---Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein--- and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged, one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic war experience long narrated by men.
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0807136816. - 9780807136812

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