Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory Space, Identity, Text

Dorothy Richardson's novel cycle Pilgrimage, completed in 1938, continues to be marginalized despite the fact that in the 1990s several monographs and many articles addressing the issues of gender, genre and modernism have been published. Her work has been recuperated from oblivion primarily as a voice of feminine modernism, but the philosophical underpinnings are still overlooked. Mapping this early modernist text against our postmodern interest in real and imagnined geographies, Bronfen addresses the question of how identity is formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning.