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Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years (Hardcover)
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Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein's
writing through its poetics of oppositions. Gertrude Stein's
Surrealist Years brings to life Stein's surrealist sensibilities
and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of
which originated in a dread of anti-Semitism. Stein's earlier works
such as Tender Buttons and Lucy Church Amiably tend to prioritize
formal innovations over narrative-building and overt political
motifs. However, Ery Shin argues that Stein's later works engage
more with storytelling and life-writing in startling ways - most
emphatically and poignantly through the surrealist lens. Beginning
with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and continuing in later
works, Stein renders legible her war-torn era's jarring dystopian
energies through narratives filled with hallucinatory visions,
teleportation, extreme coincidences, action reversals,
doppelgangers, dream sequences spanning both sleeping and waking
states, and great whiffs of the occult. Such surrealist gestures
are predicated on Stein's return to the independent clause and, by
extension, to plot, characterization, and anecdotes. By summoning
the marvelous in a historically situated world, Stein joins her
surrealist contemporaries in their own ambivalent crusade on behalf
of historiography. Besides illuminating Stein's art and life, the
surrealist framework developed here brings readers deeper into
those philosophical ideas invoked by war. Topics of discussion
emphasize how varied Jewish experiences were in Hitler's Europe,
how outliers like Stein can be included in the surrealist project,
surrealism's theoretical bind in the face of WWII, and the age-old
question of artistic legacy.
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