
Queering the Moderns
Poses/portraits/performances
Anne C. Herrmann(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 5. January 2001
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-333-94694-7 (ISBN)
Description
"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 colour line, across literary conventions that dictate autobiographies can't be written by someone else. Six memoirs that rely on cross gender and cross racial identifications are discussed 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
ports.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-94694-7 (9780333946947)
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Person
ANNE HERRMANN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where she also teaches in the Women's Studies program.
Content
Prologue 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 Coda