No Modernism Without Lesbians

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They gravitated to Paris and each other, turned their backs on patriarchy and created their own society.

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Despite my issues with how Souhami talks about Bryher's gender, the first two sections on Sylvia Beach and Bryher were my favourites. Specialising in queer theory at uni, it’s saddening to see that the exclusion of trans individuals (and any other sexualities that are the ‘L’ in the case of this book) is still such a prominent issue in queer studies. All of them worked towards breaking away from established orthodoxies, and in the words of Truman Capote, established an "international daisy-chain". All were expatriates—Bryher from the United Kingdom, the latter three from the United States—who found their way to France in the 1920s.It’s complicated at any time to apply “modern” terms to the past and I think there is definitely some grey area here - but that shouldn’t be waved off with a few paragraphs in the intro and a few jokes about alphabet soup. While there, she published short stories, wrote plays that were performed at Edinburgh Festival, The Kings Head in Islington, and broadcast as radio and television plays by the BBC. It’s so different to me than the way the present always thinks about the past, which is a little condescending, and a little chaste, and a little like that it was all suffering and there was never any color to it. I think of modernism as this break from old ways of writing, old ways of seeing, and old ways of being.

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En dat deze handmaiden (Steins lover maar ook typiste, manager, kokkin, poetsvrouw) eigenlijk alle touwtjes strak in handen had en alle vrouwen jaloers en angstvallig van Stein weghield. The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (1998), the biography of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, won the Lambda Literary Award for Biography in 2000 [4] and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Als u niet wilt dat wij en onze partners cookies en persoonsgegevens voor deze aanvullende doeleinden gebruiken, klik dan op ' Alles weigeren'. Souhami says that, after decades of her writing about lesbians, this was the first time that a mainstream publisher was open to using the word on a book cover. The excuse that they are ‘historical’ figures so could not chose this label for themselves is null as the terms lesbian and gender neutral existed way before the 20th century in which these selected individuals lived.Frank and unapologetic, Johnson vividly captures aspects of her former life as a stage seductress shimmying to blues tracks during 18-minute sets or sewing lingerie for plus-sized dancers. For me personally it is somewhat limited by the author's lack of interest and engagement with two (and quite overlapping) aspects of these queer modernists- gender/trans studies and aesthetics (the politics of form/content).

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I am a lesbian historian, and this is one of those books that expanded my knowledge exponentially, and I am grateful for it. Through Close Up, a magazine about film launched by Bryher, the Western world was exposed to the revolutionary pictures of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, whose Battleship Potemkin is still considered one of the greatest movies of all time. Alice kept house, cooked, and allowed Gertrude to be a full-time genius, which was hard work because “you have to sit around so much doing nothing”. There is always overlap with lesbian and trans histories, and to celebrate one does not deny the other - in the words of Monique Wittig, after all, lesbians are not women.The moment that wealthier backers became available, Joyce of course forgot about her service to him. Souhami’s lesbians were seeing themselves differently—as independent, rather than as the daughters, wives, or mothers of men—so why shouldn’t they see the world differently too—through stream-of-consciousness in literature or cubism in painting? The idea of a community of women who would make their own rules, and their own choices, and then follow their own desires. In this group biography, Souhami focuses on the remarkable lives of four visionary women who lived in Paris in between the two world wars and were significantly involved in the emergence of modernism as a literary and cultural movement.

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Though, her refusal to engage with Bryher's gender was extremely frustrating, seeing as it was a big struggle in her life, and there are definitely some terfy undertones which are very yikes. An insider’s account of the rampant misconduct within the Trump administration, including the tumult surrounding the insurrection of Jan. The handwritten changes not only necessitated the assistance of a typist to make sense of Joyce’s scrawling, but required rearranging the printing press one letter at a time.

Voor wie er al één en ander vanaf weet - waaronder ikzelf - valt er niet zo héél veel nieuws te rapen, want Souhami lijkt vooral de al goed gedocumenteerde levensverhalen wat compacter te brengen. Joyce’s publisher, Sylvia Beach, bore these last-minute alterations as no other publisher likely would have. Over Bryher en Nathalie Barney wist ik nog niet zoveel, dus dat was interessanter, al lijkt de verdienste van beiden vooral te zijn geweest dat ze fabelachtig rijk waren en as such heel wat kunstenaars en projecten hebben ondersteund of mogelijk gemaakt.