Modernist women writers and war
Subtitle: trauma and the female body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein
By: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baton Rouge, La
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807136812
Subjects: Barnes, Djuna; H. D. -- 1886-1961; Stein, Gertrude, -- 1874-1946; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war; Women and war in literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Circumventing the circumscription of marginalization : implicit critiques of war and trauma in Djuna Barnes's "Nightwood"; title: 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"; title: A war heroine in the domestic economy : the embodied female survivor in Gertrude Stein's "Mrs. Reynolds".