Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright
Subtitle: the poetics and politics of modernism
By: [M. Lynn Weiss].
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [Jackson, Miss.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Friends and associates.; Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Friends and associates.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Americans -- France -- History -- 20th century.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.; Poetics -- History -- 20th century.; Group identity in literature.; Minorities in literature.
Description: Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright began their careers as marginals within marginalized groups, and their desire to live peacefully in unorthodox marriages led them away from America and into permanent exile in France. Still, the obvious differences between them - in class, ethnic and racial origins, and in artistic expression - beg the question: What was there to talk about?

This question opens a window onto each writer's meditations on the influence of racial, ethnic, and national origins on the formation of identity in a modern and post-modern world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.