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Lois Gordon Nancy Cunard (Hardback)
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- Objectstaat
- Book Title
- Nancy Cunard
- Title
- Nancy Cunard
- Subtitle
- Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
- ISBN-10
- 0231139381
- EAN
- 9780231139380
- ISBN
- 9780231139380
- Genre
- Biography
- Subject
- Literary Criticism
- Release Year
- 2007
- Release Date
- 03/27/2007
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Nancy Cunard : Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 33.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 504 Pages
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Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history." Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an American beauty, Cunard abandoned the world of a celebrated socialite and Jazz Age icon to pursue a lifelong battle against social injustice as a wartime journalist, humanitarian aid worker, and civil rights champion. Cunard fought fascism on the battlefields of Spain and reported firsthand on the atrocities of the French concentration camps. Intelligent and beautiful, she romanced the great writers of her era, including three Nobel Prize winners, and was the inspiration for characters in the works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. Cunard was also a prolific poet, publisher, and translator and, after falling in love with a black American jazz pianist, became deeply committed to fighting for black rights. She edited the controversial anthology Negro , the first comprehensive study of the achievement and plight of blacks around the world. Her contributors included Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Zora Neale Hurston, among scores of others. Cunard's personal life was as complex as her public persona. Her involvement with the civil rights movement led her to be ridiculed and rejected by both family and friends. Throughout her life, she was plagued by insecurities and suffered a series of breakdowns, struggling with a sense of guilt over her promiscuous behavior and her ability to survive so much war and tragedy. Yet Cunard's writings also reveal an immense kindness and wit, as well as her renowned, often flamboyant defiance of prejudiced social conventions. Drawing on diaries, correspondence, historical accounts, and the remembrances of others, Lois Gordon revisits the major movements of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of a truly gifted and extraordinary woman. She also returns Nancy Cunard to her rightful place as a major figure in the historical, social, and artistic events of a critical era.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231139381
ISBN-13
9780231139380
eBay Product ID (ePID)
56969684
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Nancy Cunard : Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
504 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
33.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6005.U6z65 2007
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"A Worthy Biography of the Jazz Age Beauty Who Mesmerized Pound and Elliot." -- Megan O'grady, Vogue, "Gordon provides a perfect illustration of Cunard's fascinating, moving life...your perfect summertime read." -- Jen Ortiz, "Social Life Magazine", "Lois Gordon's biography of Nancy Cunard arrives at a time when we sorely need exemplars for art and activism." -- Rain Taxi, "[Lois Gordon] vividly reconstructs the Cunard legend and brings her back to life." -- Carla Kaplan, The Nation, Gordon brings a literary sensibility, a historian's insight, and psychological fluency to her groundbreaking and alternately mesmerizing and shattering biography., "Gordon brings a literary sensibility, a historian's insight, and psychological fluency to her groundbreaking and alternately mesmerizing and shattering biography." -- Booklist, "[A] fine biography-extremely well researched and felicitously written." -- Mary V. Dearborn, American Book Review, "This able, diligently researched biography... revives the memory of a remarkable woman against the backdrop of major 20th-century events." -- "Publishers Weekly", "This able, diligently researched biography... revives the memory of a remarkable woman against the backdrop of major 20th-century events." -- Publishers Weekly, This able, diligently researched biography... revives the memory of a remarkable woman against the backdrop of major 20th-century events., "Gordon provides a perfect illustration of Cunard's fascinating, moving life...your perfect summertime read." -- Jen Ortiz, Social Life Magazine, Gordon provides a perfect illustration of Cunard's fascinating, moving life...your perfect summertime read., "Gordon brings a literary sensibility, a historian's insight, and psychological fluency to her groundbreaking and alternately mesmerizing and shattering biography." -- "Booklist", Lois Gordon's biography of Nancy Cunard arrives at a time when we sorely need exemplars for art and activism.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Golden Girl 2. Coming of Age During a Revolution in the Arts 3. Counterpoint of War in London 4. Postwar Breakdown 5. Return to the World in Paris 6. Reluctant Icon 7. Nancy as Publisher 8. Prelude to Negro 9. Negro 10. Nancy as Journalist: Scottsboro, Ethiopia, Spain 11. On the Front Lines in the Spanish Civil War 12. Exposing the Concentration Camps After Franco's Victory 13. Exile and Resistance in World War II 14. Surviving Réanville 15. Escaping La Mothe 16. The Last Great Glare Epilogue Notes Index
Copyright Date
2007
Topic
Women, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, European / General, Personal Memoirs, Journalism, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Literary, American / General
Lccn
2006-026710
Dewey Decimal
821/.912 B
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Political Science
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