Stories from the Space Between
Stories from the Space Between is a podcast from the Space Between Society, a group of researchers interested in the study of the "space between" the two World Wars as well as the wars themselves. Join us for stories about the writers, artists, filmmakers, fads, fashions, technologies, economics, and politics of this radical period.
Stories from the Space Between
Interwar Appliances
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What can refrigerators, vacuums, stoves, and other appliances tell us about class, labor, race, and gender in the 1920s and '30s and beyond? Apparently quite a bit, as Rachele Dini discusses in this episode. Rachele is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at Roehampton University and the author of Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Twentieth-century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and 'All-Electric' Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945-2020 (Bloomsbury, 2021). Here, she discusses interwar appliances alongside contemporary advertisements and examples from Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein.