Difference In View: Women And Modernism

Gabriele Griffin is a Reader in Women’s Studies at Nene College, Northampton. She has contributed to What Lesbians Do In Books (eds. Elaine Hobby and Chris White, Women’s Press, 1991), Insights into Blackwomen’s Writing (ed. Gina Wisker, Macmillan, 1993) and to Teaching Women (eds. Ann Thompson and Helen Wilcox, Manchester University Press, 1989). She is the author of Heavenly Love? Lesbian Images in Twentieth Century Women‘s Writing (Manchester University Press, 1993), and edited Outwrite: Lesbians and Popular Culture (Pluto Press, 1993). Together with Elaine Aston, she also edited two volumes of plays by women, Herstory vols 1 and 2 (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991).

• Introduction Chapter 1 Europe in the Novels of Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen Chapter 2 The Other Other or More of the Same? Women’s Representations of Homosexual Menn Chapter 3 ‘Twinned Pairs of Eternal Opposites’: The Opposing Selves of Vita Sackville-West Chapter 4 ‘The Museum of their Encounter’: The Collision of Past and Present in the Fiction of Djuna Barnes Chapter 5 Case-histories versus the ‘Undeliberate Dream’: Men and Women Writing the Self in the 1930s Chapter 6 ‘Our War is with Words’: Dora Marsden and The Egoist Chapter 7 Becoming as Being: Leonora Carrington’s Writings and Paintings 1937–40 Chapter 8 Susan Hiller, Automatic Writing and Images of the Self Chapter 9 Lee Krasner: Mrs Jackson Pollock Chapter 10 The Pioneer Players: Plays of/with Identity Chapter 11 ‘Meeting the Outside’: The Theatre of Susan Glaspell Chapter 12 ‘When This You See Remember Me’: Three Plays by Gertrude Stein