As I Was Saying

Part One

• Introduction “The Long Unmaking of The Making of Americans,” by Cecilia Konchar Farr 
• Biography: “Becoming Gertrude Stein," by Janie Sisson 
• Publication History, by Janie Sisson
• Early Reception: “Damned naughty Gertrude," by Cecilia Konchar Farr 
• Archival Insights: The Continuous Making of The Making of Americans

Part Two: Reading the Novel

• Chapter One The Narrator, They: Metafictional Authorial Intent
• Chapter Two The Modernist Sentence: They are All of Them Repeating
• Chapter Three On Being American: Geography, Nationality and Class
• Chapter Four Lesbian Subtexts: The Unmaking of Patriarchy 81

Part Three: Summary

• Cast of Characters
• Illustration: Family Tree
• One: The Dehnings and the Herslands, The Hersland Parents, Mrs. Hersland and the Hersland Children,   Martha Hersland
• Two: Alfred Hersland and Julia Dehning
• Three: David Hersland
• Four: History of a Family’s Progress

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index