Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation

Offers a new way of reading Stein’s key publications: as responses to the politics of authorship and aesthetic participation Tackles the problem of Stein’s politics and challenges the scholarly tradition that reads Stein’s writing as ‘democratic’ by setting her texts firmly in the context of twentieth-century democracyExplores intersections between discourses of the author and the rights-bearing subject and between aesthetic and democratic participationExplores the way discourses of biological s