No Modernism Without Lesbians

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Stein made up for such grovelling when she announced her artistic status by declaring that “20th-century literature is Gertrude Stein”. Her self-puffery now sounds absurd, and Souhami’s view of her as “the mother and father of modernism” is not much more persuasive. At best, Stein was the fairy godmother of modernism. Like Beach and Barney, she kept a salon where she performed the traditional role of hostess, supervising the camaraderie of the male painters, writers and musicians who attended; armed with the inevitable private income, derived in her case from San Francisco streetcars, she amassed an uninsurably valuable collection of paintings by Cézanne, Picasso and Matisse, which she left unframed and sometimes casually stashed in closets. Weird things don’t get challenged like on one ep a guest says she doesn’t like Florence and t he machine bc of it’s pre raphaelite aesthetics which she doesn’t like due to its conservative connotations I find this a little bit insane and thought Jessa would question it but she seems to want to be friendly and agreeable way more than have an interesting discussion there is a real sense of sitting in on two snobby leftists who think they’re not snobby leftists bc they call out other leftists for being snobby leftists Hmm, very much not impressed by the introduction where the author discusses why she's using lesbian as a catch-all term for four people, only one of whom referred to herself as a lesbian--particularly as one person had a self-conception "as a boy trapped in the body of a girl." It'd be one thing if these people's behaviour and ways they talked about themselves fit the lesbian label even if they didn't use it. Clearly this is not the case.

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Had really high hopes for this as I’ve read some of Jessas writing and thought this would be a stimulating political podcast with a leftist tilt No Modernism Without Lesbians is a collection of four biographies of women who were instrumental to the modernist movement in literature and art: Shakespeare and Co. proprietor and publisher Sylvia Beach, patron of the arts Bryher, author and art collector Gertrude Stein, and socialite Natalie Barney.

A study of the anti-patriarchal women who played essential roles in the development of 20th-century modernism.

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She has just as annoying a vocal fry as the red scare girls but it s more high pitched her voice is slower and there’s a lot of uhhhhssss that are followed by all the frustrating things mentioned above The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place – Paris, Between the Wars – fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Ik heb dit boek met plezier gelezen, maar vind het een vreemd, bijwijlen wat slordig werk. Het valt uiteen in vier niet-echt-aan-elkaar-hangende en vooral ruwe portretten van Sylvia Beach, ‘Bryher’, Nathalie Barney en Gertrude Stein, en meer specifiek: de impact van deze monumentale dames op het modernisme in het begin van de vorige eeuw - met Parijs als middelpunt. Also announced at Saturday’s event was the Polari First Book prize, which has this year been awarded to criminal barrister Mohsin Zaidi for his memoir A Dutiful Boy. Already a Guardian, New Statesman and GQ book of the year, this debut recounts the author’s experience of growing up gay in a devout Muslim household and being in denial about his sexuality.

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As Diana Souhami sees it, lesbianism is much more than a sexual preference: it extends into an artistic vocation, an enraptured emotional cult and a political campaign that challenges the bullyboy patriarchs who assumed that “women’s bodies belong to men” and should be consecrated to perpetuating the male line. Souhami has written several fine biographies of what Truman Capote once reprehensibly called the “daisy-chain” of “butch-babes”; now, in a comprehensive cultural history, she awards lesbians the credit for modernising art, manners and morals in the early 20th century. Gale Group (1999). Contemporary authors. New revision series, volume 76: a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Farmington Hills MI: Gale. ISBN 9780787630867. External links [ edit ] If Souhami’s revisionism succeeds in reintroducing the role of women in the history of modernism, it leaves other questions yet begging. The first is the less flattering aspects of some of her subjects—for example, Stein’s relationship with, and early support for, fascists in Spain and France, which Janet Malcolm details in her biography Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, but Souhami mentions only in passing. The second is the question of women of color, who make occasional appearances in No Modernism Without Lesbians—such as Josephine Baker, who was redefining dance in Paris in the ’20s—but whose general absence becomes especially noticeable when Souhami begins tracing Barney’s lovers, and Barney’s lover’s lovers, a long list of white women.

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Wie meer wil lezen over dit onderwerp, navigeer ik met plezier naar de memoires van Sylvia Beach en haar brieven, het al genoemde boek van Fitch, en bijvoorbeeld ook “A Moveable Feast” van Hemingway en “The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas” van Gertrude Stein - zowaar een grappig en zeer leesbaar Stein boek, allicht het enige. Leuke bezigheid: zien hoe Hemingway en Stein - ooit de beste maatjes, tot ze elkaar niet meer konden luchten - elkaar de duvel aandoen in hun memoires. In the NCB section, it just skips from 1940 to 1956???????????? I can't help but assume that this was due in part to NCB and Romaine Brooks (especially Brooks) having had some fascist sympathies during the war but it was a truly bizarre choice for a biography to skip over those years, particularly when the lives during the war of the other figures discussed in the book (Sylvia Beach, Bryher, and Gertrude Stein) are covered in detail. They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own - forming a community around them in Paris.Availability of research material was one limiting factor,” says Souhami in explaining the absence of women of color in her work. “Another was the reluctance of mainstream publishers to commission books about little-known people. I hope, despite this, I’ve made a contribution.” The Weekend". Diana Souhami. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014 . Retrieved 25 March 2014.