Twentieth Century Literature, June 22nd, 2000
In the early part of the twentieth century Djuna Barnes and Katherine Mansfield each wrote a work whose Parisian setting and sexually ambivalent characters provide the backdrop for an inquiry into the convoluted mechanisms of desire and loss. Barnes's Nightwood, after an initial success boosted by T. S. Eliot's endorsement of the novel, was discussed marginally in terms of its stylistic innovation by critics until the mid-1980s, when feminist scholars rediscovered in it the thematic struggle to depict female homosexual desire. Mansfield's short story "Je Ne Parle Pas Francais," on the other ...
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