Tag Archives: Gertrude Stein

Children’s literature as World Literature

Posted on July 10, 2013 by wcd2

July 10, 2013 Is there a special connection between children’s literature and world literature? I’ve always wondered about this. Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, and Toni Morrison are just individual examples, and maybe they’re all flukes. Still, there they are: … Continue reading →

Posted in African-American literature, ancient Greece, Children's literature, Educational institutions, world literature | Tagged Aesop's Fables, Bonnie Tulloch, First Book of Africa, Gertrude Stein, Herman Melville, Institute for World Literature, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Little Man, Old Greek Stories, Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children, Slade Morrison, the Sampo, The World is Round, Toni Morrison | Leave a comment

Ntozake Shange, Alice B. Toklas: What Cooks Know

Posted on January 23, 2013 by wcd2

January 23, 2013 “The first effable gazpacho was served to us in Malaga,” Alice notes. She and Gertrude Stein would also find “entirely different but equally exquisite” versions of the that soup in Seville and Cordoba, cities once under Islamic … Continue reading →

Posted in African-American literature, Cities, Contemporary novel, Diaspora, Ethnicity, Food in literature, Global South, Greek, Islam, Mediterranean, Middle East, Polish, Spanish | Tagged Alice B. Toklas, cacik, chlodnik, cookbooks, Cordoba, Crusades, gazpacho, Gertrude Stein, Malaga, Ntozake Shange, Polish, Seville, Spanish, tarata, Turkish, Vienna | Leave a comment

Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison: More Children’s Books

Posted on September 12, 2012 by wcd2

September 12, 2012 Toni Morrison also had trouble with publishers. At least she managed to get it in print — The Big Box, the first of several coauthored with her son Slade, first appeared in Ms. Magazine in 1980 and, … Continue reading →

Posted in African-American literature, Children's literature, collaboration, Contemporary novel, Educational institutions, Genre, literary magazaines, Newspapers, print medium, Publishers, Race, Twentieth century literature | Tagged alphabet books, Amazon, Centuries of Childhood, Gertrude Stein, Giselle Potter, Hyperion Books, Jethro Tull, Ms. Magazine, New York Times, Philippe Aries, Slade Morrison, Spice Girls, The Big Box, To Do, Toni Morrison | 1 Comment

Children’s Books, Children’s Songs: Gertrude Stein, Paul Robeson

Posted on September 5, 2012 by wcd2

September 5, 2012 Last year Yale University Press brought out Gertrude Stein’s To Do: A Book for Alphabets and Birthdays, never published in her lifetime. Stein had written it as a follow-up to her first children’s book, The World is … Continue reading →

Posted in African-American music, Afro-Asian alliances, Asia, Atlantic, Black-Jewish alliances, Children's literature, China, literary magazaines, Music, Paris, print medium, Publishers, Twentieth century literature, YouTube videos | Tagged alphabet books, genre, Gertrude Stein, Giselle Porter, New Yorker, Paul Robeson, posthumous publication, Tender Buttons, The World is Round, To Do, Yale University Press | Leave a comment

Space Brownies: Alice B. Toklas, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs

Posted on May 16, 2012 by wcd2

May 16, 2012 Gertrude Stein was dead at that point; she had died in 1947. In 1952 Alice signed a contract with Harper’s to write a cookbook. Then in her 70s, Alice was not as quick with her pen as … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts communities, collaboration, Experimental poetry, film medium, Food in literature, Handwritten script, Interdisciplinarity, Media, Modern art, print medium, Publishers, Radio, Remediation, twentieth century art, Twentieth century literature, Visual arts, world literature | Tagged Alice B. Toklas, Brion Gysin, canibus sativa, cookbook, cut-up method, Gertrude Stein, Harper's, hash brownie, hippie counterculture, I Love You, mash-up, Nova Trilogy, Peter Sellers, remix, William S. Burroughs | 2 Comments

Gertrude Stein: Pittsburgh to Paris

Posted on May 9, 2012 by wcd2

May 9, 2012 850 Beech Avenue, Allegheny West. A two-story house, 5 windows on its front facade, 3 on the second floor, 2 on the first. A modest house, middle-class, no more. I remember this, of course, from The Autobiography … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Arts communities, Modern art, museums, Paris, twentieth century art, Twentieth century literature, Visual arts | Tagged African masks, Allegheny West, Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, blue period, California, Cubism, Gertrude Stein, La Femme au Chapeau, Leo Stein, Matisse, Metropolitan Museum, Michael Stein, Paris, Pennsylvania, Picasso, Pittsburgh, rose period | 2 Comments

Question of scale

Posted on November 9, 2011 by wcd2

November 9, 2011 A great conference at the University of Maryland. “Rethinking World Literature/ Other World Literatures” — this is what a lot of us claim to be doing, but probably not with the same panache, conviction, and embarrassment about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Japanese poetry, Paris, scale, world literature | Tagged cemetery, fiction/poetry, France, Gertrude Stein, haiku, Japanese poetry, Julia Wright, Paris, Richard Wright, scale, world literature | 26 Comments

Monique Truong, The Book of Salt

Posted on October 26, 2011 by wcd2

October 26, 2011 Monique Truong. The Book of Salt. Monique Truong’s second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, came out last month, so (the way things are done here) it’s the time to celebrate her first. I’ve taught The Book of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Add new tag, Alice B. Toklas, Critique of Judgment, food, Gertrude Stein, Kant, Monique Truong, sensus communis, taste, Vietnam | 20 Comments