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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... nature of his distinctive method of nega- tion . Similarly , West has been identified as a homegrown surrealist ( by Edmund Wilson ) , a " writer on the left " ( by Daniel Aaron ) , the predeces- sor of Bernard Malamud , Joseph Heller ...
... nature of the debacle that was so deeply affecting their lives . This prompted a wide variety of attempts to reconstruct the " hidden " logic of an elusive social reality . Indeed , there was an unprecedented commitment within the arts ...
... nature — and extends their capacity for social criti- cism in groundbreaking ways . Third and finally , I am interested in exploring the complicated pres- ence of mass culture in America during the 1930s , at once this country's raison ...
... natural disaster ( Pare Lorenz's The River ) ; the wrath of an angry God imposed on a wayward nation ( the sermons of Father Coughlin and Sister Aimee Semple McPherson ) ; a prison sen- tence , a natural disaster , and the wrath of ...
... natural " topography of " hills and gulches , water courses , fences , houses , " We have come across this scene many times before . It is the old , familiar scene of the machine in the garden . 16 Against the overwhelming abstractions ...
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| 3 | |
| 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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