Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 252 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816649014
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9780816649006
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0816649006
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9780816649013
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernism under the Sign of Suicide; Part I: Mimetic Elusives; 1 Holographic Ensemble: The Death of Doubt Itself in The Nigger of the "Narcissus"; 2 Something Savage, Something Pedantic: Imaginary Portraits of Certitude in Jacob's Room; Part II: Narcissism and Nothingness; 3 Maladjusted Phantasms: The Ontological Question of Blackness in Light in August; 4 The Business of Dreams: Retailing Presence in Miss Lonelyhearts; Part III: Blackness (In) Visible; 5 Chaos and Surface in Invisible Man
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6 Assuming the Position: Fugitivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester HimesNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816649006
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ashes Taken for Fire : Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity
Language:
English
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