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1 online resource (212 pages) |
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Introduction : the Toklas autobiographies and the true story of Alice B. Toklas -- Genre/textuality and gender/sexuality in the Toklas autobiographies -- Authorship and authority in The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas -- Mimicry and sexual/textual difference in What is remembered -- The Alice B. Toklas cook book and the incompatible combination -- Conclusion : the true story of Alice B. Toklas? |
| Summary |
In this original and intriguing study, Anna Linzie examines three mid-twentieth-century texts never before treated as interrelated in a book-length work of literary criticism: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Alice B. Toklas's The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) and What Is Remembered (1963). Taking these three texts as intertexts or as an assemblage of the true story of Alice B. Toklas, Linzie challenges assumptions about primary authorship and singular identity that have continued to limit lesbian and feminist rereadings of autobiography as a genre and of Ste |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-206) and index |
| Notes |
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Toklas, Alice B.
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Toklas, Alice B. Alice B. Toklas cook book.
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Toklas, Alice B. What is remembered
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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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Toklas, Alice B. fast |
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Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Stein, Gertrude) fast |
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Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
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Authors, American -- Biography
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Women authors, American
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Women authors, American -- Biography
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587296710 |
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1587296713 |
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