Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Reihe: Cultural Margins
Transatlantic Culture, 1919 1945
Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Reihe: Cultural Margins
ISBN: 978-0-521-55688-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
How do gender and race become objects of intellectual inquiry? What happens to marginal discourses when they participate in the academic processes of scrutiny and evaluation? In Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference, Alice Gambrell examines the careers of a group of women intellectuals - Leonora Carrington, Ella Deloria, H. D., Zora Neale Hurston, and Frida Kahlo - whose scholarly rediscovery coincided with the rise of feminist and minority discourse studies in the academy. She examines the exhibitions, memoirs, poems, ethnographies, and personal correspondences these women produced, combining concrete local observation with contemporary theoretical perspectives on race and gender. Through a mixture of empirical detail and theoretical speculation, Gambrell explores the role these women played in expanding the conception of American literature by their involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. She offers new ways of thinking about the relationships between cultural studies, feminism and minority discourse within the ongoing reassessment of modernism.
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Preface; 1. Introduction: 'Familiar Strangeness': women intellectuals, modernism, and difference; 2. A courtesan's confession: Freda Kahlo and surrealist entrepreneurship; 3. Leonora Carrington's self-revisions; 4. Hurston among the Boasians; 5. Dreaming history: Hurston, Deloria, and insider-outsider dialogue; 6. 'Lyrical Interrogation': H. D.'s training-analysis; Conclusion; Broken form.
