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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... commentary on West is typical in this regard : Nothing could be further from the spirit of his work than a faith in the power of new social arrangements or economic systems to alleviate the misery of the human condition . West was one ...
... social reality . Indeed , there was an unprecedented commitment within the arts to the production of what might be ... criticism . 18 " Surrealism , " Hal Foster observes , has be- come " a retroactive point of reference for ...
... criticism . Indeed , I will argue that West takes the traditional motifs , strategies , and concerns of Dada and ... social criti- cism in groundbreaking ways . Third and finally , I am interested in exploring the complicated pres ...
... social criticism during the decade , encom- passing everything from the movies of Frank Capra to the documentary photography of the Farm Security Administration , from the agrarianism of the Fugitives to the proletarian literature of ...
... criticism merely limited the scope and effectiveness of his efforts to represent social real- ity . But for others ... society.23 During the thirties this reactionary quest for innocence mani- fested itself in a variety of ways ...
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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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