Goldman, J. (2023) Gertrude Stein’s White Wines: performing (off) whiteness, (un)voicing racist language. Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 7(3), (doi: 10.26597/mod.0259)
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Abstract
This discussion reflects on the politics of whiteness in relation to Jewishness by comparing performances of a play by Gertrude Stein that re-inscribes racist language but at the same time points up performative, non-essentialist, habitual understandings of race. It refracts these politics through a Poet's Theatre performance of Stein’s play in the context of other performance events around Habits of Assembly by Corin Sworn, a contemporary art work exhibited at the 2019 Edinburgh Art Festival. Installed in and speaking to the famous neo-classical sculpture court of Edinburgh College of Art, Sworn’s work (a Bauhaus style walk-through, double-roomed, open steel cage, with video and audio displays) and the performances swirling from it—firstly Iain Morrison’s The Callers, a play (commissioned for performance in and around Habits of Assembly) which invokes D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), with all its casual anti-Semitism—constitute a material framework for investigating and turning the legacies of modernism’s race habits.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Goldman, Dr Jane |
| Authors: | Goldman, J. |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PS American literature |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Journal Name: | Modernism/Modernity Print Plus |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| ISSN: | 1080-6601 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1080-6601 |
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