TY - BOOK AU - Coffman,Chris TI - Gertrude Stein's Transmasculinity SN - 9781474438094 AV - PS3537.T323 Z579 2018 U1 - 818/.5209 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Gertrude Stein’s Transmasculinity --; Chapter 1 Seeing Stein’s Masculinity --; Chapter 2 Reading Stein’s Genders: Multiple Identifi cations in the 1900s --; Chapter 3 Reading Stein’s Genders: Transmasculine Signifi cation in the 1910s and 1920s --; Chapter 4 Visual Economies of Queer Desire in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas --; Chapter 5 Picasso’s Stein/Stein’s Picasso: Cubist Perspective/Masculine Homosociality --; Chapter 6 ‘Torquere’: Stein’s and Hemingway’s Queer Relationality --; Chapter 7 Stein, Van Vechten and Modernism’s Queer Gaze --; Coda: Gertrude Stein Icon --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Argues that Gertrude Stein’s gender can best be described as 'transmasculine’This thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein’s life and writings through the lens of transgender theory. Reframing earlier scholarship that falsely assumes that Stein’s masculinity was a misogynist manifestation of self-hatred, Chris Coffman argues that her gender was transmasculine and affirms her masculinity as a vital force in her life and work.This book uses Stein’s writings – and others’ literary and visual texts about her – to illuminate the ways her transmasculinity was formed through her relationship with her feminine partner, Alice B. Toklas, and through her masculine homosocial bonds with modernist figures such as Jane Heap, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Carl Van Vechten.Key Features:Reads Stein’s experimental writing through transgender theoryApproaches Gertrude Stein’s masculinity and relationship with Alice B. Toklas through transgender theoryExamines Stein’s masculine homosocial bonds with male modernists such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Carl Van VechtenOffers new readings of materials from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers at Yale University’s Beinecke Library UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474438117?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474438117 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474438117/original ER -