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- Title
TRANSNATIONAL MODERNIST ENCOUNTERS IN THE PROVINCES: LACERBA, MINA LOY AND INTERNATIONAL DEBATES ON SEXUAL MORALITY IN FLORENCE.
- Authors
SCURIATTI, LAURA
- Abstract
This article explores the complex encounters between Florentine, Italian and Anglo-American modernism and feminism as they emerged in the journals and magazines published in Florence, examining, as a case study, a series of texts written by the British-born poet and painter Mina Loy during her stay in the city. The analysis of the dialogue between the avant-garde journal Lacerba, Loy and the coterie gathered around the American heiress Mabel Dodge on the topics of sexuality, female emancipation and sexual morality presents a complex picture of cultural exchange and encounters, in which Florence emerges as an important modernist nexus. By providing an account of such exchanges, the article also aims to contribute to a decentring and provincialization of modernism.
- Subjects
FLORENCE (Italy); CULTURAL relations; FEMINISM; HUMAN sexuality; SEXOLOGY; LOY, Mina, 1882-1966; PERIODICALS; MODERNISM (Literature)
- Publication
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2017, Vol 53, Issue 3, p303
- ISSN
0015-8518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fmls/cqx014