[lith] Paris Was a Woman: Bohemian Women Writers of the Left Bank (Nordamerikanische Literatur und Kultur) - Einzelansicht

In this seminar we will study American expatriate women writers who lived in Paris at the beginning of the 20^th century. “Paris,” Gertrude Stein said, “was the twentieth century. It was the place to be.” In the years following the turn of the century, writers including Gertrude Stein, Natalie Barney, Djuna Barnes, Janet Flanner, Colette, Edith Wharton, H.D., Mina Loy, and others forged new and distinctly modern identities in their works. We will explore these women’s contributions to both the literary history and the literature of the Modernist period. In particular, we will focus on the construction of female identity and sexual difference in their works. A central theme of our course will be Paris as a sight of inspiration for these bohemian female modernists, and the various alternative and emancipatory literary communities they created.

Required Texts:

 Djuna Barnes. Nightwood. 1936. Faber Fiction Classics 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0571-23528-5

Gertrude Stein. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. 1933. Penguin Classics 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0141-18536-1

Janet Flanner. Paris Was Yesterday, ed. Irving Drutman. 1940. Virago 2003. ISBN-13: 978-1844-08026-7

Films:

Paris Was a Woman. . Greta Schiller. Written by Andrea Weiss. 1996.

There will also be a course reader, which will be made available to you.

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