Subversive Intent – Gender, Politics & the Avant–Garde (Paper): Gender, Politics and the Avant-garde - Softcover

Suleiman, Susan Rubin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674853849 ISBN 13: 9780674853843

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1992

Synopsis

In this book Suleiman shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists in the 20th century and in the process offers interpretations of major French avant-garde writers.

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Review

A compelling account of the way gender has shaped the historical avant-garde, above all in France. She investigates both how the material experience of gender informed men and women's participation in avant-garde movements and the use of gender in avant-garde representations. Her discussion is nuanced, careful to situate the problematic of gender and the avant-garde in its broader social and aesthetic contexts...It is clear that the book will continue to occupy an important place on the shelf of anyone studying the history and theory of the avant-garde both for its scholarship and for its fine close analyses of art and literature.--Margaret Cohen "Annals of Scholarship "

About the Author

Susan Rubin Suleiman was born in Budapest and emigrated to the U.S. as a child with her parents. She obtained her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has been on the Harvard faculty since 1981, where she is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature. Suleiman is the author or editor of many books and articles on contemporary literature and culture, published in the U.S. and abroad. Her books include Crises of Memory and the Second World War (2006), Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde (1990), Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature (1994), and the memoir Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (1996). She has edited several influential collective volumes, including French Global: A New Approach to Literary History (with Christie McDonald, 2010), .Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances (1998), and The Female Body in Western Culture (1986). Suleiman has won many honors, including the Radcliffe Medal for Distinguished Achievement and a decoration by the French Government as Officer of the Order of Academic Palms (Palmes Académiques). She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Radcliffe Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. She has been invited to lecture at major universities in England, France, Spain, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Israel, Canada, China, and Taiwan, as well as every region of the United States. She has served as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association, and as Vice-President and President of the American Comparative Literature Association. In her spare time, Suleiman enjoys swimming and tennis, movies, theater, and opera. The mother of two sons and grandmother of three grandchildren, she lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674853849
• ISBN 13: 9780674853843
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294