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ASHES TAKEN FOR FIRE
AESTHETIC MODERNISM AND THE CRITIQUE OF IDENTITY |
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Kevin Bell |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0816649006 |
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9780816649006 |
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 January, 2007 |
| Pages: |
240 |
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For years critics have held that literary modernism was both apolitical and solipsistic. While the former charge began to give way with the recession of New Criticism, the latter has grown in strength as a lead-in to the claim that postmodernism is apolitical and solipsistic. Against this backdrop, Kevin Bell surveys fiction by Conrad, Woolf, Faulkner, West, Ellison, and Himes to show that modernism is a sharply philosophical archive. In Ashes Taken for Fire, he argues that modernism exposes cultural identities such as blackness as mere strategies of conforming the self into belonging. Bell's examination pursues the question of nonidentity through sound, silence, and gesture, treating these as technologies of reading the contradictions, breakdowns, and erasures that constitute subjectivity. His analysis of these texts reveals that the aesthetic investigations they perform undo the logic of cultural identity, devastating such reductive rubrics as "race" or "gender."Ashes Taken for Fire explores the experience of blackness in both its chromatic/ocular and "racial" registers. 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.Kevin Bell is assistant professor of English and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University. |
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University of Minnesota Press |
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