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Zelda Fitzgerald鈥檚 Multimedia Self-Portraiture,

from Provocative Flapper to Subdued Clinic Inmate

Professor Elisabeth Bouzonviller

Doni Wilson claims that 鈥淸鈥�] camps [鈥�] have developed over the Fitzgerald marriage, referring to the biographers and scholars who have taken sides as members of 鈥楾eam Zelda鈥� and 鈥楾eam Scott鈥欌��.[1] Without taking sides in this controversy, we will explore how Zelda Fitzgerald, the provocative Southern Belle from Montgomery, Alabama, left her conservative native South for an exciting 鈥渕etropolitan venture鈥�[2] in New York, and even several transatlantic stays, while trying at the same time to be a wife, mother and artist. From writing to ballet and eventually painting, she tried to find a female voice that could counterbalance her famous husband鈥檚 literary success and talent, and thus achieve her own artistic fulfilment. Through their own publications, her daughter, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith,[3] and her grand-daughter, Eleanor Lanahan,[4] will lead us to consider a visual and textual family narrative transmitted and built through females from three generations. Thus, Zelda鈥檚 life narrative will appear as a composite creation involving texts and images, which echoes Smith and Watson鈥檚 idea that 鈥渇requently women鈥檚 artistic production of the autobiographical occurs at the interface of the domains of visuality [鈥�] and textuality [鈥�]鈥�.[5]

[1] Doni M. Wilson, 鈥淔rom Both Sides Now: Fiction, Fairness, and Zelda Fitzgerald.鈥� The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. State College: The Pennsylvania State University Press, vol. 11, 2013, 171-172.

[2] F. Scott Fitzgerald, 鈥淢y Lost City鈥�, My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940. Ed. James L. W. West III. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 110.

[3] Matthew J. Bruccoli, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith and Joan P. Kerr (ed.). The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (1974). Columbia: South Carolina Press, 2003.

[4] Eleanor Lanahan, ed. Zelda: An Illustrated Life. The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1996.

[5] Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance. Anne Arbour: University of Michigan Press, 2002, 7.