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Ashes taken for fire : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity  Cover Image E-book E-book

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

Bell, Kevin 1966- (Author).

Summary: 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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  • ISBN: 9780816649013
  • ISBN: 9780816649006
  • ISBN: 0816649014
  • ISBN: 0816649006
  • ISBN: 9780816698899
  • ISBN: 0816698899
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 252 pages)
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    Computer data.
  • Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.

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General Note:
CatMonthString:july.24
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Restrictions on Access Note:
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Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Action Note:
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- England
Modernism (Literature) -- United States
Modernisme (Littérature) -- États-Unis
Modernisme (Littérature) -- Angleterre
Roman américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
Roman anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
American fiction
English fiction
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
Literatur
Moderne
Modernism (Literature)
England
Englisch
United States
USA
JSTOR-DDA
Multi-User.
Genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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