Gertrude Stein's Transmasculinity / / Chris Coffman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Coffman, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 18 illustrations

Argues that Gertrude Stein’s gender can best be described as 'transmasculine’This thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein’s life and writings through the lens of transgender theory. Reframing earlier scholarship that falsely assumes that Stein’s masculinity was a misogynist manifestation of self-hatred, Chris Coffman argues that her gender was transmasculine and affirms her masculinity as a vital force in her life and work.This book uses Stein’s writings – and others’ literary and visual texts about her – to illuminate the ways her transmasculinity was formed through her relationship with her feminine partner, Alice B. Toklas, and through her masculine homosocial bonds with modernist figures such as Jane Heap, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Carl Van Vechten.Key Features:Reads Stein’s experimental writing through transgender theoryApproaches Gertrude Stein’s masculinity and relationship with Alice B. Toklas through transgender theoryExamines Stein’s masculine homosocial bonds with male modernists such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Carl Van VechtenOffers new readings of materials from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers at Yale University’s Beinecke Library

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Gertrude Stein’s Transmasculinity -- Chapter 1 Seeing Stein’s Masculinity -- Chapter 2 Reading Stein’s Genders: Multiple Identifi cations in the 1900s -- Chapter 3 Reading Stein’s Genders: Transmasculine Signifi cation in the 1910s and 1920s -- Chapter 4 Visual Economies of Queer Desire in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas -- Chapter 5 Picasso’s Stein/Stein’s Picasso: Cubist Perspective/Masculine Homosociality -- Chapter 6 ‘Torquere’: Stein’s and Hemingway’s Queer Relationality -- Chapter 7 Stein, Van Vechten and Modernism’s Queer Gaze -- Coda: Gertrude Stein Icon -- Bibliography -- Index