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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:Cultural Front ; 7
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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