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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... argue , that ambiguity is largely derived from a confusion over both his own politics and the politics of represen- tation . Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in his attempt to carve out a middle ground between " radical press [ es ] ...
... argue that West's self - re- flexive approach — grounded as it is in the anti - aesthetic strategies of Dada and surrealism — offers what is probably the most insightful means of understanding the particular obstacles to the pursuit of ...
... argue that West takes the traditional motifs , strategies , and concerns of Dada and surrealism — its scatological humor , its use of the readymade , its fascina- tion with human machines and " exquisite corpses , " its systematic ...
... argue that pastoralism in its myriad forms con- stitutes the dominant mode of social criticism during the decade , encom- passing everything from the movies of Frank Capra to the documentary photography of the Farm Security ...
... argue that the FSA was doing no more than it was charged to do : photograph rural subjects . But as the foregoing example shows , it was not easy to distin- guish , much less divorce , the rural from the urban , folk culture from mass ...
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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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