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

• Autore: Linzie Anna <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.5209; B
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - Biography - History and criticism; Women authors, American - History and criticism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The true story of Alice B. Toklas
• ISBN: 1-58729-671-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778234903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II