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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... scenes : " The lights gradually grew dim , then dark . While you strained to see and could not , the scenery was shifted . You could hear the people moving , the shuffling feet of the stage hands , the sound of rollers . " 4 But , Inman ...
... scene of great trauma : the dead end to the bewildered farmer's attempt to secure an ex- planation for his travails . In Rothstein's photograph the bank is simply closed , the money withdrawn . This hard fact is reenforced by the pho ...
... scene many times before . It is the old , familiar scene of the machine in the garden . 16 Against the overwhelming abstractions of the machine , Steinbeck poses the claims of the particular , the local , the existential , the ...
... scenes . But per- haps the best clue to West's orientation within the historical avant - garde lies in his attempt to associate his work with that of Georges Ribemont- Dessaignes . A close collaborator of Tristan Tzara's , Dessaignes ...
... scenes of conflagration involving Paris ( " warehouse of the arts " ) and London ( center of empire ) .13 The imprecatory tone of the poem , along with its rhetoric and imagery , is clearly inspired by the Communist Manifesto . But the ...
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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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