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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... Surrealism ( Literature ) —United States . 7. Depressions in literature . 8. Hconomics in literature . 9. Mimesis in literature . I. Title . PS3545.E8334Z9 813'.52 — dc21 II . Series . 1997 97-14031 For my father , John P. Veitch , who ...
... surrealism as modes of social criticism . 18 " Surrealism , " Hal Foster observes , has be- come " a retroactive point of reference for postmodernist art , especially for its critique of representation . " But that critique has been ...
... surrealism on the . . . arts in this country , they crop up along the trajectory that carried abstract - expressionist paint- ing into action painting and more recently into pop art.21 ... Comments like these have tended to obscure the ...
... surrealism — its scatological humor , its use of the readymade , its fascina- tion with human machines and " exquisite corpses , " its systematic substi- tution of artifice for nature — and extends their capacity for social criti- cism ...
... surrealism of the Depression itself , which seemed to meet all efforts to explain its causes with the laughter of a jeering clown . To return , then , to the scene from The Grapes of Wrath with which we began : Steinbeck's attempt to ...
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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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