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Contemporary Women's Writing 2008 2(1):79-80; doi:10.1093/cww/vpn012
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A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innovative Writing. Deborah M. Mix

Lee Rumbarger

Vassar College, USA

Correspondence: lerumbarger@vassar.edu

2007. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, pp. 248. £26.50

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Deborah M. Mix uses three linked "vocabularies"—of feminist engagement, genre disruption, and intimate address of readers—as flexible, loose-spun fibers to weave together Gertrude Stein and contemporary experimentalist writers Harryette Mullen, Daphne Marlatt, Betsy Warland, Lyn Hejinian, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Challenging the masculinist and militaristic associations of the avant-garde, Mix re-evaluates experimentalism as a movement well-suited to feminist, lesbian, multicultural, and postcolonial activism, and establishes it as a site for a richly participatory, even . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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