A Girl Like We: Narrative Doubling and the Politics of Femininity in Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/mfs.2023.0000

Claire Barwise, Brian May, Iva Ančić, Timothy Lem-Smith, Alaina Kaus, Yuan Shu, Pieter Vermeulen, Jade M. Becker, Justin Gifford, Emily M. Hall, Tod Hoffman, Abigail Moreshead, Riti Sharma, Kelli D. Zaytoun

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay reconsiders the feminist potential of Anita Loos's best-selling novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It argues that Loos' allusions to her own authorial persona—aligned with both the ostensibly airheaded Lorelei and her drolly-intelligent companion Dorothy—invite a reading of the pair as a fictional double. As such, Lorelei and Dorothy satirize the male response and act as a bifurcated presentation of a femininity not yet socially legible. By reading Loos's novel alongside her autobiographical writing and early screen treatments, readers can better understand her satiric agenda and engagement with mass culture's gender politics.

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期刊介绍： Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.