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Sasha Colby kombiniert in diesem autofiktionalen Roman zwei Zeitebenen: die 1940er-Jahre der Zwangsarbeit ihrer Großmutter bei der Firma Leitz und die Gegenwart, in der sie ihrer Großmutter in Gesprächen Stück für Stück Erinnerungspartikel abringt.Dabei gelingt es ihr, die Geschichte dieser beiden so unterschiedlichen Frauen so zu erzählen, dass trotz der Schrecken, die sie erlebt haben, der Humor und die unbändige Lust am Leben nicht zu kurz kommen. Gleichzeitig schildert der Roman in bewegender Weise den Widerstand einer Industriellen-Familie gegen das Nazi-Regime, wie man es noch...

This book proposes an alternative modernist tradition, a line of writers captured by the archaeological project and the poetic possibilities it created. This tradition spans from Theophile Gautier s mid-nineteenth-century passion for Egyptology to Charles Olson s literal excavations on the Yucatan peninsula in the 1950s. With attention to the historical development of archaeology, the author argues that the archaeological became a rich site of cultural fantasy, a location where modernity s alternatives could be considered, imagined, and transcribed. These models, taking their cue from new...

Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), came to define the interwar avant-garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits. In Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these women s lives and writing in three new plays that traverse the origins of modernism, Parisian literary circles, two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and race and gender relations in the first half of the twentieth century. Leveraging each writer s autobiographical materials, the plays explore the work of H.D., Loy, and...

Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), came to define the interwar avant-garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits. In Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these women s lives and writing in three new plays that traverse the origins of modernism, Parisian literary circles, two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and race and gender relations in the first half of the twentieth century. Leveraging each writer s autobiographical materials, the plays explore the work of H.D., Loy, and...