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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826800003321

Autore

Linzie Anna <1971->

Titolo

The true story of Alice B. Toklas [[electronic resource] ] : a study of three autobiographies / / Anna Linzie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006

ISBN

1-58729-671-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

818/.5209

B

Soggetti

Authors, American - Biography - History and criticism

Women authors, American - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction.; 1. Genre/Textuality and Gender/Sexuality in the Toklas Autobiographies; 2. Authorship and Authority in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; 3. Mimicry and Sexual/Textual Difference in What Is Remembered; 4. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book and the Incompatible Combination; Conclusion.; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this original and intriguing study, Anna Linzie examines three mid-twentieth-century texts never before treated as interrelated in a book-length work of literary criticism: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Alice B. Toklas's The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) and What Is Remembered (1963). Taking these three texts as intertexts or as an assemblage of the true story of Alice B. Toklas, Linzie challenges assumptions about primary authorship and singular identity that have continued to limit lesbian and feminist rereadings of autobiography as a genre and of Ste