American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930sUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1997 M11 1 - 200 páginas Nathanael West has been hailed as “an apocalyptic writer,” “a writer on the left,” and “a precursor to postmodernism.” But until now no critic has succeeded in fully engaging West’s distinctive method of negation. In American Superrealism, Jonathan Veitch examines West’s letters, short stories, screenplays and novels—some of which are discussed here for the first time—as well as West’s collaboration with William Carlos Williams during their tenure as the editors of Contact. Locating West in a lively, American avant-garde tradition that stretches from Marcel Duchamp to Andy Warhol, Veitch explores the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism—the use of readymades, scatalogical humor, human machines, “exquisite corpses”—as modes of social criticism. American Superrealism offers what is surely the definitive study of West, as well as a provocative analysis that reveals the issue of representation as the central concern of Depression-era America. |
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... Depression and the Culture of Abundance to West's critique of the cul- ture industry . As illuminating as these critics are — and at times they can be very illuminating indeed — they tend to treat West's fiction as an illus- tration of ...
... Depression America from the one promoted in the pages of the New Masses . For one thing West was less interested in the masses than in the phenomenon of " mass man . " One searches in vain among the heartsick contributors to Miss ...
... Depression into a universal image of human suffering , " as Podhoretz suggests , West particularizes those horrors within the quite specific historical milieu of the Depression , when an emerging mass cul- ture began " standardizing its ...
... Depression — there is a revealing exchange between a tenant farmer and a young man on a tractor . The young man has been sent to knock down the farmer's house and evict him from his land . The farmer stands in the doorway , rifle in ...
... Depression ( hunger , joblessness , degradation ) , this vertiginous loss of the capacity to represent social reality was among the worst . There were many during the 1930s who shared the farmer's bewilder- ment over the causes ...
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| 15 | |
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Contact | 47 |
Miss Lonelyhearts | 67 |
A Cool Million | 88 |
The Day of the Locust | 113 |
Madonnas Bustier or The Burning of Los Angeles | 132 |
Notes | 139 |
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