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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... readers for the University of Wisconsin Press . Their encouraging response and helpful commentary not only improved the manuscript , they also breathed new life into its tired author . I am grateful to all of them . No project of this ...
... reading 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 ...
... reading was so thoroughly at odds with the prevailing opinion of the day — except , of course , for that of the Frankfurt School — that few appreciated its signif- icance . What did come through loud and clear , however , was West's ...
... reading of literary modernism promulgated by a number of New York Intellectuals who sought to provide a refurbished and chastened postwar liberalism with a critical awareness of what Lionel Trilling de- scribed as the " hell within ...
... reading . But Podhoretz is mistaken if he attributes that pessimism to existentialist despair over the " human condition " ; for West , the ubiq ... reading of the 1930s , a reading that puts the problem of representation xvi Preface.
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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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