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- The Awakening of Female Vorticism in Jessica Dismorr’s Textual and Visual Representations
The Awakening of Female Vorticism in Jessica Dismorr’s Textual and Visual Representations
Authors : Tuğba KARABULUT
Pages : 1308-1320
Doi:10.29000/rumelide.1369165
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Publication Date : 2023-10-21
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Vorticism was a London-based avant-garde movement of art and literature in the early 20th century. Launched by Wyndham Lewis with "The Vorticist Manifesto” in 1914, Vorticism employed the depiction of an image’s movement and exalted the dynamism of the wartime machine age. Inspired by Futurism and Cubism, Vorticism is often considered masculinist, excluding women from the textual and visual canons. The British avant-garde poet and artist Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939) was one of the two female members of Vorticism. She contributed to the movement with her textual and artistic representations from its commencement to its demise; however, she was long overlooked by literary and aesthetic critics. This article, from intertextual, aesthetic and feminist perspectives, investigates how the textual and visual narrators in Dismorr’s prose-poems "June Night” (1915) and "London Notes” (1915) and her painting, Abstract Composition (c.1915) problematize the exclusion of women in London’s male-dominated city and public spaces and argues the relationship between urbanization and "Female Vorticism.”Keywords : Jessica Dismorr, Female Vorticism, Feminist Urbanization, Abstract Composition, “June Night, ” “London Notes