Odd Affinities

Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies

AvElizabeth Abel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of “long modernism.”In recent decades, Virginia Woolf’s contribution to literary history has been located primarily within a female tradition. Elizabeth Abel dislodges Woolf from her iconic place within this tradition to uncover her shadowy presence in other literary genealogies. Abel elicits unexpected echoes of Woolf in four major writers from diverse cultural contexts: Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, and W. G. Sebald. By mapping the wayward paths of what Woolf called “odd affinities” that traverse the boundaries of gender, race, and nationality, Abel offers a new account of the arc of Woolf’s career and the transnational modernist genealogy constituted by her elusive and shifting presence. Odd Affinities will appeal to students and scholars working in New Modernist studies, comparative literature, gender and sexuality studies, and African American studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226825694

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Elizabeth Abel is the John F. Hotchkis Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis and Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow and the editor or coeditor of four collections, most recently, Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism.

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"For Abel the ideal Woolf is imperfect and relative to the moment, 'rather than an icon frozen in time'. . . . Abel’s Woolf speaks in new contexts: in African American modernism, in relation to postwar trauma. At times the author’s bravura, intricate arguments feel almost deliberately baroque, as if she wants to stress that any effort to resituate Woolf is, after all, the work of reading. . . . Perhaps this is all that can be done with a figure so thoroughly read: continue to listen for all her resonances, as well as the notes that do not sound clearly."

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Woolf TracksPart I: Woolf’s Room in African American ModernismChapter 1: Mrs. Dalloway in Harlem: Passing’s Contending ModernismsChapter 2: The Smashed Mosaic: Woolf’s Traces in Baldwin’s OeuvrePart II: Woolf’s Refuge in Late European ModernismChapter 3: Light Rooms: Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, and the Mediums of Maternal MourningChapter 4: Invisible Subjects: Woolf’s Flickering in Sebald’s AusterlitzAfterword: Vibrations and VisibilityList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex