Ashes taken for fire : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity /
Kevin Bell surveys fiction by Conrad, Woolf, Faulkner, West, Ellison, and Himes to argue that modernism exposes cultural identities such as blackness as mere strategies of conforming the self into belonging. For while blackness operates as a standard figural expression for disorientation, its presum...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Kevin Bell surveys fiction by Conrad, Woolf, Faulkner, West, Ellison, and Himes to argue that modernism exposes cultural identities such as blackness as mere strategies of conforming the self into belonging. For while blackness operates as a standard figural expression for disorientation, its presumably "voided" character is reprojected in this work as an immanent force of possibility and experimentation. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 252 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780816698899 0816698899 |