Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf's Shadow Genealogies by Professor Elizabeth Abel

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Odd Affinities by Professor Elizabeth Abel, Elizabeth Abel A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of "long modernism." In recent decades, Virginia Woolfs contribution to literary history has been located primarily within a female tradition. Elizabeth Abel dislodges Woolf from her iconic place within this tradition to uncover her shadowy presence in other literary genealogies. Abel elicits unexpected echoes of Woolf in four major writers from diverse cultural contexts: Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, and W. G. Sebald. By mapping the wayward paths of what Woolf called "odd affinities" that traverse the boundaries of gender, race, and nationality, Abel offers a new account of the arc of Woolfs career and the transnational modernist genealogy constituted by her elusive and shifting presence. Odd Affinities will appeal to students and scholars working in New Modernist studies, comparative literature, gender and sexuality studies, and African American studies. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Elizabeth Abel is the John F. Hotchkis Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis and Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow and the editor or coeditor of four collections, most recently, Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Woolf Tracks Part I: Woolfs Room in African American Modernism Chapter 1: Mrs. Dalloway in Harlem: Passings Contending Modernisms Chapter 2: The Smashed Mosaic: Woolfs Traces in Baldwins Oeuvre Part II: Woolfs Refuge in Late European Modernism Chapter 3: Light Rooms: Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, and the Mediums of Maternal Mourning Chapter 4: Invisible Subjects: Woolfs Flickering in Sebalds Austerlitz Afterword: Vibrations and Visibility List of Abbreviations Notes Index Review "For Abel the ideal Woolf is imperfect and relative to the moment, rather than an icon frozen in time. . . . Abels Woolf speaks in new contexts: in African American modernism, in relation to postwar trauma. At times the authors bravura, intricate arguments feel almost deliberately baroque, as if she wants to stress that any effort to resituate Woolf is, after all, the work of reading. . . . Perhaps this is all that can be done with a figure so thoroughly read: continue to listen for all her resonances, as well as the notes that do not sound clearly." * Times Literary Supplement *"What a joy it is to think alongside Elizabeth Abel, our most brilliant critic of Virginia Woolfs fiction. A work of gentle genius, Odd Affinities brims with startling readings of Woolfs hidden presence in the writings of Larsen, Baldwin, Barthes, and Sebald. It is a delight to agree with Abel, and a delight to disagree with her too, as the very act of disagreement surfaces other odd affinities. I will return to this astonishing book again and again." * Merve Emre, editor of "The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway" *"Challenging caricatures of Woolf as an insular British writer, Elizabeth Abels strikingly original case studies show how the work of this touchstone figure inspires artists across race, class, sex, gender, national, and generational differences and resonates at deep levels in their imaginative and theoretical writings. Odd Affinities captures fascinating sotto voce literary conversations—the remarkable fruits of Abels free, organic adventure in scholarly reading—and enhances our understanding of literary influence as such." * Christine Froula, author of "Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde" *"Elizabeth Abels startling mode of literary genealogy reveals how Woolfs modernist work, in both content and form, shaped some of the most significant literature of the twentieth century. Odd Affinities does not simply bring Woolfs writing into dialogue with Larsen, Baldwin, Barthes, and Sebald; it invites us to listen to the whispered conversations her work was already having with these writers as they produced their major works, and we are left wondering how and why we missed the Woolfian influence on these diverse oeuvres for so long." * Kabe Wilson, artist and creator of "Olivia NGowfri - Of One Woman or So" * Details ISBN0226825698 Author Elizabeth Abel Pages 304 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780226825694 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-04-19 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle Virginia Woolfs Shadow Genealogies Country of Publication United States DEWEY 823.912 Illustrations 15 halftones Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2024-04-19 ISBN-10 0226825698 UK Release Date 2024-04-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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