Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference
Transatlantic Culture, 1919–1945
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Part of Cultural Margins
- Author: Alice Gambrell, University of Southern California
- Date Published: July 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521556880
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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.
Read more- First study of how an important group of female African-American writers were made objects of inquiry within the academy
- Looks at the question of sexual and cultural difference across a range of disciplines within modernism
- Multidisciplinary and international in scope
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- Date Published: July 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521556880
- length: 254 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.33kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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
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