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Queering the Moderns

Name: Queering the Moderns
Author: Anne C. Hermann,Anne Herrmann
ISBN: 9780312233273

by Anne C. Hermann, Anne Herrmann

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In Queering the Moderns, Anne Herrmann revisits the narrative of literary modernism and the historical uses of the term “queer” to explore the emergence of identities specific to modernism. "Queer" in the modernist period (1910-1945) means "strange, odd, out of sorts" and although it begins to refer to those who are queer sexually, it does not yet police a hetero-homosexual divide. It means crossing boundaries in unexpected directions, across the Atlantic, across the color line, across literary conventions that dictate autobiographies can't be written by someone else. Six memoirs that rely on cross-gender and cross-racial identifications are discussed within their specific cultural contexts so that female aviators (Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham), "lesbian" auto/biographers (Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein) and male auto-ethnographers (James Weldon Johnson and Earl Lind--Ralph Werther) begin to "queer" the traditional spaces of modernism.

About the Author, Anne C. Hermann,Anne Herrmann

Anne Herrmann is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where she also teaches in the Women’s Studies program.

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Arguing that the term queer does not totally refer to sexuality, but to crossing other boundaries as well, Herrmann (English and women's studies, U. of Michigan) examines six memoirs that rely on cross- gender and cross-racial identifications to allow female aviators, lesbian biographers and autobiographers, and male auto-ethnographers begin to queer the traditional spaces of modernism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)