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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... ultimately prove to be more reactionary than " liberatory . " Given West's differences with the communist left — his rejection of proletarian culture as well as the latent if not the explicit politics of the Popular Front , his deep ...
... ultimately obscured rather than illuminated the social forces at work during the thirties . In the process , an immensely complicated social , cultural , and economic structure was reduced to an undifferentiated , and ultimately ...
... ultimately take the signifying practices of Depression - era America for his subject . But Heartfield's brand of political satire , while close to West's fiction in many ways , does not provide the point of departure for either his ...
... ultimately satisfy West . To paraphrase Breton's tepid " defense " of " Red Front , " the poem tends to substitute " social drama " for " poetic drama " and in the process reduce surrealism to a matter of surface tech- nique . West's ...
... ultimately , as we shall see , toward the problem of representation itself . For Miro , Arp , Masson , and Klee , automatism is presumed to offer a privileged entree into the realm of the unconscious , which is seen as a quasi ...
Contenido
| 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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