Jane Goldman

Bio

Jane Goldman (Twitter: @janeagoldman) is Reader in English at Glasgow University, co-General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Edition of Virginia Woolf, and poet. She has published widely on the avant-garde and modernism, including The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf (Cambridge UP) and Modernism, 1910-1945: Image to Apocalypse (Palgrave). Co-editor of the recent Cross-Channel Modernisms (Edinburgh UP), and the imminent Cambridge Flush, she is writing Virginia Woolf and the Signifying Dog. Her first poetry collection is Sekxphrastiks (Dostoyevsky Wannabe).

Contributions

Gertrude Stein’s White Wines: Performing (Off) Whiteness, (Un)Voicing Racist Language

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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...

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race performance