Gertrude Stein's transmasculinity / Chris Coffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coffman, Christine E., author.

Contributor:

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Criticism and interpretation.

Stein, Gertrude.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

Gender identity in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 342 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"This book views Gertrude Stein's life and writings through the lens of transgender theory. Reframing earlier scholarship that falsely assumes that Stein's masculinity was a misogynist manifestation of self-hatred, Chris Coffman argues that her gender was transmasculine and affirms her masculinity as a vital force in her life and work. This book uses Stein's writings--and others' literary and visual texts about her--to illuminate the ways her transmasculinity was formed through her relationship with her feminine partner, Alice B. Toklas, and through her masculine homosocial bonds with modernist figures such as Jane Heap, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Carl Van Vechten. Key Features: Reads Stein's experimental writing through transgender theory; approaches Gertrude Stein's masculinity and relationship with Alice B. Toklas through transgender theory; examines Stein's masculine homosocial bonds with male modernists such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Carl Van Vechten; and offers new readings of materials from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Gertrude Stein's transmasculinity

1. Seeing Stein's masculinity

2. Reading Stein's genders: multiple identifications in the 1900s

3. Reading Stein's genders: transmasculine signification in the 1910s and 1920s

4. Visual economies of queer desire in 'The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'

5. Picasso's Stein / Stein's Picasso: Cubist perspective / masculine homosociality

6. 'Torquere': Stein's and Hemingway's queer relationality

7. Stein, Van Vechten and Modernism's queer gaze

Coda: Gertrude Stein icon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-327) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Coffman, Christine E. Gertrude Stein's transmasculinity.

ISBN:

9781474438094

1474438091

OCLC:

1009247700