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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... tradition in the United States , where the iconoclastic rebellion against a bourgeois cul- tural heritage would have made neither artistic nor political sense . In the United States , the literary and artistic heritage never played as ...
... tradition " of art and the institutions that support it , American artists like Nathanael West have managed to fashion that anti- aesthetic stance into a fruitful mode of criticism . Indeed , I will argue that West takes the traditional ...
... tradition from modernity . The fact that the FSA did so in such a surgical fashion and that the results were ... traditional and modern , nature and culture left them susceptible to a vir- ulent form of antimodernism that posited a ...
... traditional forms of realism rely . It is , as its name implies , an " excessive realism " that aspires to turn its particular kind of joking into a distinct mode of social criticism . As I noted earlier , the importance of surrealism ...
... tradition . " 6 Beyond their mutual interest in " the dehumanized marvelous , the delib- erately criminal and imbecilic , " West was clearly attracted to Apoili- naire's fascination with forgeries , hoaxes , and the second - hand ...
Contenido
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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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