Odd affinities : Virginia Woolf's shadow genealogies / Elizabeth Abel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abel, Elizabeth, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

xiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago, 2024.

Summary:

"For decades, Virginia Woolf's work has been seen as part of the "women's writing" canon. Elizabeth Abel extracts Woolf from this women's tradition to position her in a different light, one that shows Woolf's role in a far-reaching modernist genealogy. Abel traces the strong echoes of Woolf in the work of four major writers from diverse cultural contexts: Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, and W. G. Sebald. As Abel shows, what Woolf called the "odd affinities" between herself and these successors give us an altogether different picture of the development of transnational modernism, with Woolf as a shadowy but important connection among disparate writers. By charting new pathways of twentieth-century literary transmission, Odd Affinities will appeal to students and scholars working in New Modernist studies, comparative literature, and African American studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Woolf Tracks

Part One. Woolf's Room in African American Modernism. Mrs. Dalloway in Harlem: Passing's Contending Modernisms

The Smashed Mosaic: Woolf's Traces in Baldwin's Oeuvre

Part Two. Woolf's Refuge in Late European Modernism. Light Rooms: Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, and the Mediums of Maternal Mourning

Invisible Subjects: Woolf's Flickering in Sebald's Austerlitz

Afterword. Vibrations and Visibility.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-277) and index.

ISBN:

9780226825694

0226825698

9780226832678

0226832678

OCLC:

1393255134