American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930sUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1997 M10 15 - 182 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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... Depression ( hunger , joblessness , degradation ) , this vertiginous loss of the capacity to represent social reality was among the worst . There were many during the 1930s who shared the farmer's bewilder- ment over the causes ...
... Depression provided that jolt . " Indeed , the severity and scope of the Depression forced Amer- icans to undertake an unprecedented rite of self - examination . And when they did , they found to their chagrin that they lacked a ...
... Depression itself . The 1929 stock market crash may have been more a symptom than a cause of economic instabil- ity , but its dramatic role as a harbinger of the Depression gave finance a centrality in the American imagination that it ...
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Contact | 47 |
Miss Lonelyhearts | 67 |
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