No Modernism Without Lesbians

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Diana Souhami (born 25 August 1940) is an English writer of biographies, short stories and plays. She is noted for her unconventional biographies of prominent lesbians. This post is part of Outward , Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, and culture. Read more here . A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize'A book about love, identity, acceptance and the freedom to write, paint, compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters.

Diana Souhami wins 2021 Polari prize for No Modernism Without

No Modernism Without Lesbians is a collection of four biographies of women who were instrumental to the modernist movement in literature and art: Shakespeare and Co. proprietor and publisher Sylvia Beach, patron of the arts Bryher, author and art collector Gertrude Stein, and socialite Natalie Barney. Hmm, very much not impressed by the introduction where the author discusses why she's using lesbian as a catch-all term for four people, only one of whom referred to herself as a lesbian--particularly as one person had a self-conception "as a boy trapped in the body of a girl." It'd be one thing if these people's behaviour and ways they talked about themselves fit the lesbian label even if they didn't use it. Clearly this is not the case.

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Had really high hopes for this as I’ve read some of Jessas writing and thought this would be a stimulating political podcast with a leftist tilt Bakst: the Rothschild panels of the Sleeping beauty. London: Philip Wilson. 1992. ISBN 9780856674198.

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She has just as annoying a vocal fry as the red scare girls but it s more high pitched her voice is slower and there’s a lot of uhhhhssss that are followed by all the frustrating things mentioned aboveGale Group (1999). Contemporary authors. New revision series, volume 76: a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Farmington Hills MI: Gale. ISBN 9780787630867. External links [ edit ] Emily Reynolds (13 May 2013). "For Books' Sake Talks To: Diana Souhami". For Books' Sake . Retrieved 19 April 2014. Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas act out a paradoxical variant of this power play. Stein was cubistically solid, gruff and glowering, while Toklas, even with her bristly moustache, looked meek and dainty. Alice kept house, cooked, and allowed Gertrude to be a full-time genius, which was hard work because “you have to sit around so much doing nothing”. Yet the apparent weakling in this menage turned out to be the slave-driver, as Ernest Hemingway testified when he overheard Stein beg for mercy as she was tongue-lashed by the partner she called “Pussy”. I started writing about lesbians 25 years ago in the hope of contributing to breaking the history of silence. Acceptance can't happen without openness, and I believe we should all try to speak out in our own way. If you're silent and invisible you're no trouble to anyone. You're so buried you're assumed not to be there. So, historically, we have to dig deep to shed light on 'these practices', rid them of insult, turn the wrongdoing around, name and shame the abusers." (Souhami quoted by Emily Reynolds) [10] Works [ edit ] Books [ edit ] I saw her critique of chapo and red scare as unlistenable and I have to say having listened to red scare that this one is much more unlistenable