Ashes taken for fire : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bell, Kevin, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Temas:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > England.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Angleterre.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American fiction.
English fiction.
Modernism (Literature)
Moderne
Literatur
England.
United States.
USA
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Holographic ensemble : the death of doubt itself in The nigger of the "Narcissus"
  • Something savage, something pedantic : imaginary portraits of certitude in Jacob's room
  • Maladjusted phantasms : the ontological question of blackness in Light in August
  • The business of dreams : retailing presence in Miss Lonelyhearts
  • Chaos and surface in Invisible man
  • Assuming the position : fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes.

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