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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... result of his dis- enchantment from the spell of commodity fetishism . Such a reading was so thoroughly at odds with ... results in a Brave New World of " anarchic and frightening " energies that may ultimately prove to be more ...
... result of the fall of the Soviet Union and the dismantling of the American welfare state , the usurpation of a monologically defined class struggle by the politics of multiculturalism , and indeed , with the death of so many of its ...
... results , asking us to accept the absurd limitations of his " funny pages " as constitutive . Moreover , he is ... result : Dostoevski as Roy Lich- tenstein might have translated him . It would be inaccurate to argue , as some ...
... result of these enormous transformations , Americans awoke to find themselves in a world that was altogether different from the one into which they had been born.8 According to Alan Brinkley's influential study of the thirties , " many ...
... results defied common sense . One farmer summed up the absurdity of the situation by observing that he expected to make a fortune by not raising hogs . An unemployed man — sounding very much like Alice in a Depression - era Wonderland ...
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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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