Queering the Moderns
Subtitle: Poses, Portraits & Performances.
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press, LLC
Published: 2000
Place of publication: S. l
Number of pages: 197
Description: ""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 that autobiographies can't be written by someone else.

In this study, Anne Herrmann discusses six memoirs that rely on cross-gender and cross-racial identifications 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."--BOOK JACKET.