Spectacle, Technology and Performing Bodies
Djuna Barnes at Coney Island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Goody (0000-0002-4750-4324, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-230 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernist Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8629 • E-ISSN: 2041-1022 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/mod.2012.0039 |
| OpenAlex | W1988216773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Djuna Barnes’s journalism has often been taken as a testing ground for ideas she explored further in her later writing, and particularly in Nightwood (1936). Much of the time in criticism Barnes’s oeuvre has been subsumed into this novel, praised somewhat ambiguously by T. S. Eliot in his ‘Introduction’ to the 1937 edition.1 Barnes wrote much besides Nightwood, texts which are just as, if not more, interesting for the scholar of modernism. Barnes’s dramas, for example the short plays she wrote in the 1910s and the late play The Antiphon (1958), reveal a recurrent engagement with the textuality and politics of performance and display that is manifest in different areas of her fiction and non-fiction writing. The following pages consider the ways Barnes negotiates this politics of performance in her newspaper writing on the leisure spaces of New York in the 1910s. Her journalism from this period explores constructions of the body and gender particularly at the intersection of popular culture with technological innovation and with the changing definitions of femininity in the early twentieth century. What emerges from this writing is a sense of the spectacle and performance of femininity as something that is not just made visible, but actually is produced by the mechanisms of modernity
Art · Political science · Spectacle · French Literature and Poetry · German Literature and Culture Studies · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |