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World War I Short Fiction - Margaret R. Higonnet (essay date 1993)
Margaret R. Higonnet (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Higonnet, Margaret R. “Not So Quiet in No-Woman's Land.” In Gendering War Talk, edited by Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott, pp. 205-26. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
[In the following essay, Higonnet identifies and discusses several of “the misogynist barriers women had to overcome when they translated the war into words.”]
Patriarchal Poetry is the same as Patriotic poetry is the same as patriarchal poetry is the same as Patriotic poetry is the same as patriarchal poetry is the same.
(Gertrude Stein)
World War I seemed to many contemporaries to defy linguistic formulation. Authentic speech, it has...
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