Modernist Women Writers and War: Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein

by Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick

In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged--one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic war experience long narrated by men.

In the past, Goodspeed-Chadwick explains, scholars have not considered writings by women as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807136816
• ISBN13: 9780807136812
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"