Cecilia Konchar Farr, Janie Sisson

As I Was Saying

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Scholarly Series
• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781628974584
• ISBN-10: 1628974583
• Artikelnr.: 63366378

Inhaltsangabe

Part One
* Introduction “The Long Unmaking of The Making of Americans,” by
Cecilia Konchar Farr 
* Biography: “Becoming Gertrude Stein," by Janie Sisson 
* Publication History, by Janie Sisson
* Early Reception: “Damned naughty Gertrude," by Cecilia Konchar Farr 
* Archival Insights: The Continuous Making of The Making of Americans
Part Two: Reading the Novel
* Chapter One The Narrator, They: Metafictional Authorial Intent
* Chapter Two The Modernist Sentence: They are All of Them Repeating
* Chapter Three On Being American: Geography, Nationality and Class
* Chapter Four Lesbian Subtexts: The Unmaking of Patriarchy 81
Part Three: Summary
* Cast of Characters
* Illustration: Family Tree
* One: The Dehnings and the Herslands, The Hersland Parents, Mrs.
Hersland and the Hersland Children,   Martha Hersland
* Two: Alfred Hersland and Julia Dehning
* Three: David Hersland
* Four: History of a Family’s Progress
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index