Djuna Barnes’s journalism and women’s leisure in the modern city
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22157201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristina Chesaniuk (Auburn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 224-239 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Modernist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-2921 • E-ISSN: 2469-293X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24692921.2021.1928848 |
| OpenAlex | W3165594488 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Throughout much of her early journalism, Djuna Barnes reconstructs the roles that women hold in the modern city. I discuss Barnes’s articles that focus on leisure and entertainment, where she reworks the conversation surrounding women’s presence and mobility in public and normalizes the female urban experience. Barnes is subversive in her ability to locate women in new and emerging places of public mass entertainment and modern city life and her stories are grounded in the physically built environment, exposing the everyday scenes of the city to her readers. Barnes borrows techniques from flânerie throughout her journalism to document the changing urban geographies that resulted in women’s new agencies and mobilities within the modernist city. Women’s experience of the city is crucial to understanding how transformations associated with modernity occurred and reverberated across society and Barnes’s portrayal of women’s leisure and entertainment at the turn-of-the-century provides a rich account of the gendered aspects of modernity in urban settings
Aesthetics · Art · Conversation · Entertainment · Everyday life · Journalism · Media studies · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Literature and Culture Studies · Modernist Literature and Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |