MODERNISM AND GENDER TROUBLE

Authors

  • Juan Antonio Suárez

Keywords:

Modemism, modernity, textuality, sexuality, gender studies

Abstract

This essay provides a hisrorical and theorerical frame for the more specific inquiries that follow. It examines the gender ascription of modern arr and culture and contextualizes such gender ascription in relation to the emergence of gender and sexuality as crucial features in the definition of individual and collective identities in modernity. At a later moment, it situates the study of modernist textuality within this historical and conceptual framework and outlines recent developments in modernist gender studies. It proposes through our that contextual awareness in the study of literary modernism demands a revision of traditional notions of the modern and of its relations with the posrmodern.

Author Biography

Juan Antonio Suárez

Dpto. de Filología Inglesa Universidad de Murcia Murcia - 30071

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