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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... reality , a reality that is , as they should well know , " always already " constituted by the practices of advanced capitalism . To reverse Aaron , then , in West's fiction the real culprit is not humanity , but capitalism . In fact ...
... reality . Indeed , there was an unprecedented commitment within the arts to the production of what might be described as " social knowledge . " Case studies , reportage , documentary photography , prole- tarian literature , and " social ...
... reality was among the worst . There were many during the 1930s who shared the farmer's bewilder- ment over the causes responsible for such disenfranchisement . The nar- rator of Tennessee Williams ' Glass Menagerie likened the pain of ...
... reality took fire around him . . . John Heartfield was no longer playing . The scraps of photographs that he formerly manoeuvred for the pleasure of stupefaction , under his fingers began to signify . " 10 West would ultimately take the ...
... reality bestows rich gifts on him who does not close himself to it . In the depths , the abscesses of festering reason dis- solve without trace . Apes and parrots are the greatest enemies of art and dreams . Men with their reason seek ...
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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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