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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... described as " social knowledge . " Case studies , reportage , documentary photography , prole- tarian literature , and " social problem " films investigated areas of experi- ence that had heretofore been denied " official " recognition ...
... described in many ways by many different historians of modernity . But the description that comes the closest to defining the specific circumstances of the farmer's predicament can be found in Robert Wiebe's The Search for Order . In ...
... described as a " covert pastoral " ) , 18 One might cite any number of instances by way of example , but per- haps the purest and most sustained manifestation of the pastoral impulse during the Depression ( and certainly the supreme ...
... described it , " equivalent to incomprehensibility . " 4 Even so , there is an element of truth in his denial . In many ways West is op- posed to the goals and practices of surrealism , or at least to the goals and practices of a very ...
... described as a world of " unlimited freedom " ; 20 rather , the unconscious reveals itself to be a world that is , as Rosalind Krauss puts it , " already filled , already — to say the word — readymade . " 21 This by no means trivializes ...
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| 15 | |
| 23 | |
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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