Modernist Women Writers and War [electronic resource] : Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein / Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodspeed-Chadwick, Julie, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Psychic trauma in literature.

Women and war in literature.

World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. Mrs. Reynolds.

Stein, Gertrude.

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961. Trilogy.

H. D.

Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood.

Barnes, Djuna.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors---Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein--- and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged, one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic war experience long narrated by men.

Contents:

Circumventing the circumscription of marginalization : implicit critiques of war and trauma in Djuna Barnes's "Nightwood"

Validating female war experience through literary witnessing : the poetics of the poet-prophet and the politics of trauma and healing in H.D.'s "Trilogy"

A war heroine in the domestic economy : the embodied female survivor in Gertrude Stein's "Mrs. Reynolds".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-159) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8071-3816-9

OCLC:

779139988