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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Kirstie Blair Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 41
Gypsies and Lesbian Desire:
Vita Sackville-West,Violet Trefusis,
and Virginia Woolf
Kirstie Blair
Long Barn, Knole, Richmond and Bloomsbury. All too familiar
and entrapping. Either I am at home, and you are strange...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 97–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... representations of transnational exchanges, exploring to what extent women migrants achieve agency in the complex world of multicultural transactions. Works Cited Barany Zoltan . 2002 . The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 507–512.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., perching us on the poet’s shoulder as he sits at his desk in his boarding house in Brooklyn (the famous “February House” on Middagh Street where Auden lived for a time with an eccentric group of artists, including Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers, Paul and Jane Bowles, and Gypsy Rose Lee), composing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... See Thomas
Berger, James. “Twentieth-Century Apocalypse: Forecasts and Aftermaths.” 46.4
(2000): 387-395
Twentieth-Century Literature 51.1 Spring 2005 114
Index
Bishop, Elizabeth. See Carson; Pickard;White
Blair, Kirstie. “Gypsies and Lesbian Desire: Vita Sackville-West,Violet...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, criminals, political subversives, and, especially, Jews. He watches helplessly as those closest to him are killed, recording horrific sights like a box full of putrefying gold teeth, and gruesome events, such as, near the war’s end, when the Nazis “aren’t even trying to feed...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 96–105.
Published: 01 March 2006
... employed by
the Nazis. This discourse was essential to the Nazis’ program, enabling
them to designate as degenerate (and then to wipe out) certain groups of
people, in particular Jews and Gypsies. She observes:
Twentieth-Century Literature 52.1 Spring 2006 96
Review
despite the fact...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 104–125.
Published: 01 March 2013
...-
footed teen-aged boys huddled” to “feel their groins, smoke cigarettes,
and plan mild outrages,” and it had been before that a Hungarian bakery
famous for its “brioche and poppy-seed rolls,” a real estate office, and the
home of a gypsy family who displayed their elaborately dressed daughters...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 December 2009
... her hippie, gypsy friends,
but to Petrus Lucy is still chickenfeed: an amateur, an enthusiast
of the farming life rather than a farmer. Petrus would like to take
over Lucy’s land. Then he would like to have Ettinger’s too, or
enough of it to run a herd on. (117...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 196–220.
Published: 01 June 2010
... white hotels in Babi Yar. (Each of them had a Vogel, a
Madame Cottin, a priest, a prostitute, a honeymoon couple, a
soldier poet, a baker, a chef, a gypsy band.) (221)
Babi Yar’s “quarter of a million white hotels” remain, however, unpresent-
able—buried by unbreakable historical...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to society but one might say to accept a moral way of living and a psychological individualism.” In the early film “The Vagabond” (1916), “The Tramp” as a transient violin busker rescues a vulnerable and physically abused women in a “Gypsy” roadside encampment—a pairing of vulnerable, transient lives...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 403–428.
Published: 01 December 2016
... offered by heterochrony. Nor was Huxley alone in his literary engagement with these ideas. The fantastical metamorphosis in Woolf’s Orlando may be related to the contemporary discovery that sex change in gypsy moths results from heterochrony ( de Beer 1930 , 21–23), which may also inform...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2017
... embodies the Eros/Thanatos dialectic through her queer s/m practice, a practice that renders her body a literal text to be read and deciphered. She recalls how “Thanatz would sit with her lying across his knees, and read the [whip] scars down her back, as a gypsy reads a palm. [. . .] Scar-tissue formed...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that “not only were Poles, Gypsies, Ukrainians, and other European ethnics not ‘victims of the Holocaust,’ but that … he wasn’t even sure that they deserved to be called ‘victims of Nazism’” (quoted in Novick 2000 , 335n43). 5 Crediting these particular historians, Styron writes in his introduction...
