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Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein, the American modernist writer, was an international celebrity, an artistic iconoclast, and a self-proclaimed genius. Her experiments in poetry and prose still puzzle structuralist, deconstructionist, and feminist critics.
Like the work of several of the writers she examines, then, Chapman's book is a collage of voices, traditions, forms, and styles: Gertrude Stein's libretto for The Mother of Us All over here, the silent sentinels of suffrage street demonstrations over there. Mary Chapman.