1. Het boek, onze podcast en queer boekenclub, inleidend,
2. De korte inhoud van het boek (1'30")
3. Baron Felix, de heteroman (5'9")
4. Robin Vote, schepsel van de nacht (9'48")
5. Moederschap en kinderloosheid (13'59")
6. Gender en andere constructen (17'14")
7. Parijs in de jaren '20 (22'38")
8. Djuna Barnes, lesbienne tegen wil en dank? (27'51")
9. Fascisme, vroeger en nu (34'26")
10. De modernistische roman (39'10")
11. Mag dit boek in onze boekenkast blijven staan? (41'33")

Meer informatie en bronnen:

On Djuna Barnes

Dead ladies show 

Other Work

• The Book of Repulsive Women
• A Night Among The Horses.
• Ladies Almanack. Chronicles of Paris lesbian life, o.a. Natalie Barney.
• Ryder, autobiographical novel.
• The Antiphon, bitter book about hate of her family.

A fragment from a sapphic poem 'Seen From the "L"'

SO she stands—nude—stretching dully

Two amber combs loll through her hair

A vague molested carpet pitches

Down the dusty length of stair.

She does not see, she does not care

   It's always there.

On Nightwood

Podcast Lit Century 

On Dr. O'Connor as a trans character

The First Trans Woman in Western Fiction. ‘Nightwood’s Dr. Matthew O’Connor was gender dysphoric. https://medium.com/the-awl/the-first-trans-woman-in-western-fiction-731fd7c13b85 

Olivia Scott Harris. (2020) “What is this thing, Lord?”: Matthew O’Connor and the Queer Theology of the Catholic Church in Nightwood (1937). https://www.apollonejournal.org/apollon-journal/what-is-this-thing-lord

On lesbian relationships

Harker, Jaime. PARIS WAS A LESBIAN. Women’s Liberation and the Re-Queering of Modernism.

Susana S. Martins (1999). Gender Trouble and Lesbian Desire in Djuna Barnes's "Nightwood". In: A Journal of Women Studies , 1999, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1999), pp. 108-126 Published by: University of Nebraska Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3347225 

On antisemitism

In Search of “the Jew” in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230391673_4  

On a Freudian reading 

Jane Marcus (1989). Laughing at Leviticus: "Nightwood" as Woman's Circus Epic. In: Cultural Critique, Autumn, 1989, No. 13, and The Construction of Gender and Modes of Social Division (Autumn, 1989), pp. 143-190, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1354272

On Paris in the 20ies

Here are some pictures of queer women of la rive gauche à Paris.

Some of their names

• Eileen Gray, modern designer
• Lee Miller, war photographer.
• Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith, jazz musician and dancer, owner of Chez Bricktop.
• Josephine Baker, African-American dancer and singer
• Colette, writer.
• Ratclyffe Hall, writer.
• Romaine Brooks, painter
• Marie Laurencin, painter, modernist
• Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, writer and hosts of a literary salon.
• Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien, hosts of a literary salon.
• Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, owners of book shops (Shakespeare and Company and La Maison des Amis des Livres)
• Janet Flanner or Genet, reporter.

The documentary Paris Was A Woman.

De vele levens van Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude Stein documentary: When This You See Remember Me.

Bad Gays podcast. Gertrude Stein. Joe Carstairs. Radclyffe Hall.

Yesterqueers about Joe Carstairs.

Book: The Story of Art without Men.

1. Een introductie op het boek, de book club en onze podcast.
2. De korte inhoud van het boek.(0'47'')
3. Is dit boek queer fictie? (3'20'')
4. Wat zijn de queer thema's in het boek? (9'50")
5. Een boek in tweede persoon ... wat doet dat met ons? (13'25")
6. Het personage van Maali Almeida.(15'33")
7. Een korte geschiedenis van Sri Lanka.(23'28")
8. Magisch realisme in absurde situaties.(32'09")
9. Mag dit boek op onze boekenplank blijven staan? (37'26")

Meer informatie en bronnen:

About the ‘real characters’

• Lionel Wendt, queer closeted photographer whom a cultural center in Colombo was named after. The male body was an important part of his work.
• Maali Almeida - Richard de Zoysa, activist and journalist, who was abducted and murdered. He was himself gay.
• Major Raja - Premadasa Udugampola, anti-JVP death squads. 
• Dr. Ranee Sridharan - Dr. Rajani Thiranagama
• The Palace - Batalanda

Other books and references

Fernando Aramburu’s Patria. About Basque civil war.

Sources

BBC World Book Club Podcast

Over Lionel Wendt: https://www.groene.nl/artikel/heilige-naakten 

About the queerness in the book, theoretical point of view and Buddhism: https://www.ewalukaszyk.com/uploads/2/0/4/9/20493194/ghosts_eco-queer_sri_lankan_history.pdf