No Modernism Without Lesbians

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Voor wie er al één en ander vanaf weet - waaronder ikzelf - valt er niet zo héél veel nieuws te rapen, want Souhami lijkt vooral de al goed gedocumenteerde levensverhalen wat compacter te brengen. Het verhaal van Sylvia Beach, het iconische “Shakespeare & Co” en de hele hetze met James Joyce is al vaker, en met meer verve, verteld onder meer door Beach zelf, maar ook door bijvoorbeeld Noël Riley Fitch in “Sylvia Beach & The Lost Generation” - aanraders both.

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Cunningham, John (27 April 2002). "The real Robinson Crusoe". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 March 2014.The Paris lesbians had to free themselves from male authority, the controlling hand, the forbidding edict. They escaped the disapproval of fathers and the repression of censors and lawmakers, defined their own terms and shaped their own lives. They did not reject all men – they were intrinsic to furthering the careers of writers, film-makers and artists whose work and ideas they admired. What shifted was the power base, the chain of command." A woman's place: the changing picture of women in Britain. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 1986. ISBN 9780140086096.

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In the NCB section, it just skips from 1940 to 1956???????????? I can't help but assume that this was due in part to NCB and Romaine Brooks (especially Brooks) having had some fascist sympathies during the war but it was a truly bizarre choice for a biography to skip over those years, particularly when the lives during the war of the other figures discussed in the book (Sylvia Beach, Bryher, and Gertrude Stein) are covered in detail. As Diana Souhami sees it, lesbianism is much more than a sexual preference: it extends into an artistic vocation, an enraptured emotional cult and a political campaign that challenges the bullyboy patriarchs who assumed that “women’s bodies belong to men” and should be consecrated to perpetuating the male line. Souhami has written several fine biographies of what Truman Capote once reprehensibly called the “daisy-chain” of “butch-babes”; now, in a comprehensive cultural history, she awards lesbians the credit for modernising art, manners and morals in the early 20th century. Wild girls: Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2004. ISBN 9780297643869. Had really high hopes for this as I’ve read some of Jessas writing and thought this would be a stimulating political podcast with a leftist tilt This post is part of Outward , Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, and culture. Read more here .Souhami gets much of her information on Renee Vivien's life outside of Natalie Clifford Barney from Colette's The Pure and The Impure, which is...not like the most reputable source? I'm mostly disappointed because I was hoping to learn some new information on Vivien, and instead I got a rehashing of Colette's piece on her. A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters.

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Emily Reynolds (13 May 2013). "For Books' Sake Talks To: Diana Souhami". For Books' Sake . Retrieved 19 April 2014. is niet bepaald flatterend. Dat ze een snor had, herhaalt Souhami ad nauseam. En dat deze handmaiden (Steins lover maar ook typiste, manager, kokkin, poetsvrouw) eigenlijk alle touwtjes strak in handen had en alle vrouwen jaloers en angstvallig van Stein weghield. Souhami lijkt niet zo hoog op te lopen met het werk van Stein, waar ze verrassend vaak de draak mee steekt. Found myself waiting to hear an actual point being said but things are either alluded to or taken as a matter of fact or if a point is made it’s often rephrased a couple more times to idk fill up time I guess Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer.Stein made up for such grovelling when she announced her artistic status by declaring that “20th-century literature is Gertrude Stein”. Her self-puffery now sounds absurd, and Souhami’s view of her as “the mother and father of modernism” is not much more persuasive. At best, Stein was the fairy godmother of modernism. Like Beach and Barney, she kept a salon where she performed the traditional role of hostess, supervising the camaraderie of the male painters, writers and musicians who attended; armed with the inevitable private income, derived in her case from San Francisco streetcars, she amassed an uninsurably valuable collection of paintings by Cézanne, Picasso and Matisse, which she left unframed and sometimes casually stashed in closets.