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Bookmark or Share- Djuna Barnes - WikipediaDjuna Barnes (/ ˈ dʒ uː n ɑː /, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
- Djuna Barnes: “The Most Famous Unknown of the Century!” - Literary HubDjuna Barnes: “The Most Famous Unknown of the Century!” On the Queer, Modernist Classic Nightwood. By Ruth Joffre. June 18, 2018. When I was an undergraduate at Cornell University I received a grant to travel to the University of Maryland, where the Djuna Barnes archive is housed at the Hornbake Library.
- Djuna Barnes | SpringerLinkDjuna Barnes has often been neglected and overlooked as a modernist author, perhaps due to her tendency for seclusion and self-censoring. She employs strange, obscene and sometimes disturbing bodily imagery, featuring human-animal hybrids and unconventional outsider figures which destabilise the distinction between desire and disgust.
- Embracing The Quirkiness Of Djuna Barnes : NPRJune 16, 20124:23 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. 4-Minute Listen. Playlist. Writer Djuna Barnes had herself force-fed in 1914 to help her document the experience of English suffragettes...
- Djuna Barnes | Modernist writer, feminist, journalist | BritannicaDjuna Barnes (born June 12, 1892, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.—died June 18?, 1982, New York, New York) was an avant-garde American writer who was a well-known figure in the Parisian literary scene of the 1920s and ’30s.
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