The true story of Alice B. Toklas : a study of three autobiographies / Anna Linzie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linzie, Anna, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.

Authors, American.

Women authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.

Women authors, American.

Toklas, Alice B.

Toklas, Alice B. Alice B. Toklas cook book.

Toklas, Alice B. What is remembered.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Stein, Gertrude.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this original and intriguing study, Anna Linzie examines three mid-twentieth-century texts never before treated as interrelated in a book-length work of literary criticism: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Alice B. Toklas's The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) and What Is Remembered (1963). Taking these three texts as intertexts or as an assemblage of the true story of Alice B. Toklas, Linzie challenges assumptions about primary authorship and singular identity that have continued to limit lesbian and feminist rereadings of autobiography as a genre and of Ste

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction.; 1. Genre/Textuality and Gender/Sexuality in the Toklas Autobiographies; 2. Authorship and Authority in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; 3. Mimicry and Sexual/Textual Difference in What Is Remembered; 4. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book and the Incompatible Combination; Conclusion.; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-206) and index.

ISBN:

1-58729-671-3

OCLC:

219755045