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SENSING RACE AGAINST REPRESENTATION IN THE EXPERIMENTAL
WRITINGS OF GERTRUDE STEIN: 1910–1940
by
Jean L. Neely
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH)
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Jean L. Neely
Object Description
| Title | Sensing race against representation in the experimental writings of Gertrude Stein: 1910–1940 |
| Author | Neely, Jean L. |
| Author email | jeanneely@gmail.com;jeanneely@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-12-12 |
| Date submitted | 2012-02-16 |
| Date approved | 2012-02-16 |
| Restricted until | 2012-02-16 |
| Date published | 2012-02-16 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lloyd, David C. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Norindr, Panivong Rowe, John Carlos |
| Abstract | This dissertation undertakes to read, hear, and feel the openly unsaid and concretely sounded, spelled, and sewn manifestations of race and racial anxiety in the writing of Gertrude Stein after 1910. It explores race as the irresistible, elusive, ever-irruptive trace of difference that resists reference and abstractive representational logic while inflecting and shaping the meaning of the ordinary everywhere. In this project I read the frequent explicit references to the racial throughout Stein’s corpus as pivotal, loosely fastening (and fattening) buttons that connect and charge Stein’s recurring vocabularies of the body and domestic space with racial significance. I begin by reviewing the critical climate of discussions of race in Stein’s writing and outlining some of the theoretical work that is instrumental in thinking, locating, and articulating race in relation to Stein and other representation-resistant forms. After some discussion of the historical contexts in which we find race pervasively saturating, infusing, and structuring Stein’s world of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century life in the U.S. and France, I consider the ways in which race weaves together and sounds through Stein’s oblique plays on the ordinary, her handling of “little” everyday words and her challenges to the limits of representation. In reading a broad span of Stein’s writings over many years, I look into the intensely intertextually connective and re-sounded, proliferative and profound dynamics of the non-negligible, structuring trace and tracks of race imprinted in and sounded through the familial-ly and materially associative potential of words as relationally suggestive rather than abstractly substitutional, as part of the embodied substance of the Real that constitutes everything though it always exceeds and evades communicative translation and pressures toward graspable, master-able clarity. |
| Keyword | Gertrude Stein; race; representation; experimental poetry; avant-garde poetics |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Neely, Jean L. |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume6/etd-NeelyJeanL-477.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | SENSING RACE AGAINST REPRESENTATION IN THE EXPERIMENTAL WRITINGS OF GERTRUDE STEIN: 1910–1940 by Jean L. Neely A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Jean L. Neely |
