Modernism, Inc. : : Body, Memory, Capital / / ed. by Jani Scandura, Michael Thurston.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Damon, Maria,; Kalaidjian, Walter,; Lew, Walter K.,; Lyon, Janet,; Maxwell, William J.,; Nelson, Cary,; Nicholls, David G.,; Rabinowitz, Paula,; Rosenberg, Daniel,; Ross, Marlon B.,; Scandura, Jani,; Stewart, Kathleen,; Thurston, Michael,; Walker, Julia A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Scandura, Jani,; Thurston, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Front ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, Modernism, Inc. provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture. Organized around the idea of "incorporation"--embodiment, repressed memory, and advanced capitalism--Modernism, Inc. covers a wide range of topics: Josephine Baker's "hot house style"; the president's penis in American political life; myth-making and the Hoover Dam; trauma, poetics, and the Armenian genocide; feminist kitsch and the recuperation of North America's "Great Lady painters"; Gertrude Stein and Jewish Social Science; the Reno Divorce Factory and the production of gender; Andy Razaf and Black Bolshevism. Collectively, the essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution, or extremity, but of haunting. Modernism, Inc. looks at our ghosts, and at the unspeakable secrets of modernity from which they're derived. Contributors: Maria Damon, Walter Kalidjian, Walter Lew, Janet Lyon, William J. Maxwell, Cary Nelson, John Timberman Newcombe, David G. Nicholls, Thomas Pepper, Paula Rabinowitz, Daniel Rosenberg, Marlon Ross, Jani Scandura, Kathleen Stewart, Julia Walker.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: AMERICA AND THE PHANTOM MODERN -- I BODY -- 1. MACHINE DREAMS -- 2. JOSEPHINE BAKER’S HOTHOUSE -- 3. TRESPASSING THE COLORLINE: AGGRESSIVE MOBILITY AND SEXUAL TRANGRESSION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW NEGRO MODERNITY -- 4. BODIES, VOICES, WORDS: MODERN DRAMA AND THE PROBLEM OF THE LITERARY -- II MEMORY -- 5. NO ONE IS BURIED IN HOOVER DAM -- 6. THE EDGE OF MODERNISM: GENOCIDE AND THE POETICS OF TRAUMATIC MEMORY -- 7. WRITING, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND ETHNICITY IN GERTRUDE STEIN AND CERTAIN OTHERS -- 8. JEAN TOOMER’S CANE, MODERNIZATION, AND THE SPECTRAL FOLK -- 9. GRAFTS, TRANSPLANTS, TRANSLATION: THE AMERICANIZING OF YOUNGHILL KANG -- III CAPITAL -- 10. GREAT LADY PAINTERS, INC.: ICONS OF FEMINISM, MODERNISM, AND THE NATION -- 11. KITCHEN MECHANICS AND PARLOR NATIONALISTS: ANDY RAZAF, BLACK BOLSHEVISM, AND HARLEM’S RENAISSANCE -- 12. RENO-VATING GENDER: PLACE, PRODUCTION, AND THE RENO DIVORCE FACTORY -- 13. POLITICS AND LABOR IN POETRY OF THE FIN DE SIÈCLE AND BEYOND: FRAGMENTS OF AN UNWRITABLE HISTORY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX