Modernist Latitudes: The Fury Archives

Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes

Modernist Latitudes: The Fury Archives
Jill Richards
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11 Aug 2020 US
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9780231197113
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women's movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals. Jill Richards argues that these movements were not just socially linked but also deeply interconnected. Each offered the other an experimental language that could move beyond the nation-state's rights of man and citizen, suggesting an alternative conceptual vocabulary for women's rights.Rather than focus on the demand for the vote, The Fury Archives turns to the daily practices and social worlds of feminist action. It offers an alternative history of women's rights, practiced by female arsonists, suffragette rioters, industrial saboteurs, self-named terrorists, lesbian criminals, and queer resistance cells. Richards also examines the criminal proceedings that emerged in the wake of women's actions, tracing the way that citizen and human emerged as linked categories for women on the fringes of an international campaign for suffrage.Recovering a transatlantic print archive, Richards brings together a wide range of activists and artists, including Lumina Sophie, Ina Cesaire, Rosa Luxemburg, Rebecca West, Angelina Weld Grimke, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Hannah Hoech, Claude Cahun, Paulette Nardal, and Leonora Carrington. An expansive and methodologically innovative book, The Fury Archives argues that the relationship of women's rights movements and the avant-gardes offers a radical alternative to liberal discourses of human rights in formation at the same historical moment.

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The Fury Archives is a tour-de-force study of modernist women's struggles for citizenship and human rights across transnational geographies. Richards reminds us of the variegated sites and everydayness of politics-from the sphere of reproductive labor to the quotidian committee meeting-and offers a compelling genealogy of the intersections between women's rights and human rights. It is one of the most nuanced accounts of politics as praxis I have ever read. -- Janice Ho, author of Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British NovelJill Richards's exploration of "the daily life of feminist action" brilliantly trains our attention on aspects of revolutionary work-routines and tactics, protocols and cycles-too often obscured in later histories. Traversing disciplines, genres, and oceans in unprecedented ways, it requires us to reconsider many of our most cherished assumptions about the relation between avant-garde art and political aspiration. -- Douglas Mao, author of Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature 1860-1960Jill Richards's book is masterful in its range of inquiries, beautifully written, and elegantly argued. The research supporting the book's radical and provocative arguments is also exceptionally thorough and meticulously engaged; it synthesizes and builds upon a number of comprehensive historical and theoretical debates. -- Elizabeth S. Anker, Cornell University
Jill Richards is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. She is a coauthor of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Columbia, 2020).
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ISBN-13: 9780231197113
Published: 11 Aug 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 344

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