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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... Mass Culture , and Pro- fessionalism , and Rita Barnard has devoted the final third of The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance to West's critique of the cul- ture industry . As illuminating as these critics are — and at times ...
... culture during the early thirties ( which demanded , so West felt , writing " based on a the- ory " ) , he was ... mass man . " One searches in vain among the heartsick contributors to Miss Lonelyhearts ' advice column or the ...
... mass culture : the " bright shawls , exotic foods , [ and ] outlandish costumes " of the El Gaucho restaurant in Miss Lonelyhearts or the " Samoan huts , Mediterranean villas , Egyptian temples " that line the Hollywood hills in The Day ...
... culture industry " is such that " humanity " is inseparable from the capitalist forms that " produce " it . Instead ... mass cul- ture began " standardizing its products and consolidating itself as a vast oligopoly ( the Hollywood ...
... mass culture in America during the 1930s , at once this country's raison d'être and bête noire . West was one of mass culture's earliest and shrewdest critics . Although he was deeply critical of mass culture , it is important to note ...
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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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