Gender and genre in Gertrude Stein
Some individuals transgress the conventional bounds of gender roles, just as some works of literature go beyond traditional generic frames.The works of Gertrude Stein typically challenge the expectations of both gender and genre.
Contributions in women's studies, no. 169
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 145 pages ; 25 cm
9780313307553, 0313307555
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Introduction: Gendered Genre Family vs. Female Wandering Departing from Patrilinearity: The Deconstruction of the Family and The Making of Americans Ida and Id-Entity Voices and Votes: Plays and Operas Stein Plays: A Circular Play (1920) The Multiple Voices of Ladies' Voices (1916) "Preparing for Opera": Gertrude Stein and Susan B. Anthony, Mothers of Us All Auto-Bio-Graphies Whose Autobiography? I/Eye and Everybody's Autobiographies The Double-Voiced Autobiography The "I" in Everybody's Autobiography Wars I Have Seen: Seeing and Telling Through the I/Eye Foreign America: Four in America and Gertrude Stein Detection and Meditation The Subject fo Detection: Blood on the Dining-Room Floor Stanzas in Meditation or Meditation in Stanzas Conclusion Stein's Compositional Approach: Beginning and Beginning Composing and Rearranging Rose and (Her) Autobiography The Round World of Rose and Rose and Rose and Rose Appendix: Stein's Manuscripts Bibliography Index