Bad Modernisms

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Douglas Mao, Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Duke University Press, 2006 M04 14 - 365 páginas
Modernism is hot again. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and artists are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century’s most vibrant cultural constellation. Yet this widespread embrace raises questions about modernism’s relation to its own success. Modernism’s “badness”—its emphasis on outrageous behavior, its elevation of negativity, its refusal to be condoned—seems essential to its power. But once modernism is accepted as “good” or valuable (as a great deal of modernist art now is), its status as a subversive aesthetic intervention seems undermined. The contributors to Bad Modernisms tease out the contradictions in modernism’s commitment to badness.

Bad Modernisms thus builds on and extends the “new modernist studies,” recent work marked by the application of diverse methods and attention to texts and artists not usually labeled as modernist. In this collection, these developments are exemplified by essays ranging from a reading of dandyism in 1920s Harlem as a performance of a “bad” black modernist imaginary to a consideration of Filipino American modernism in the context of anticolonialism. The contributors reconsider familiar figures—such as Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Josef von Sternberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein, W. H. Auden, and Wyndham Lewis—and bring to light the work of lesser-known artists, including the writer Carlos Bulosan and the experimental filmmaker Len Lye. Examining cultural artifacts ranging from novels to manifestos, from philosophical treatises to movie musicals, and from anthropological essays to advertising campaigns, these essays signal the capaciousness and energy galvanizing the new modernist studies.

Contributors. Lisa Fluet, Laura Frost, Michael LeMahieu, Heather K. Love, Douglas Mao, Jesse Matz, Joshua L. Miller, Monica L. Miller, Sianne Ngai, Martin Puchner, Rebecca L. Walkowitz

 

Contenido

Modernisms Bad and New
1
Walter Paters Queer Modernism
19
Manifestos Satire and the RearGuard of Modernism
44
The Limits of Modernity and the feelings of Philosophy in Wittgensteins Tractatus
68
The Romance of Cliché EM Hull D H Lawrence and Interwar Erotic Fiction
94
Critical Cosmopolitanism and British Modernism
119
Black Venus Blonde Venus
145
The Black Dandy as Bad Modernist
179
Lewis Auden and the Queerness of Liberalism
206
Carlos Bulosans The Laughter of My Father
238
HitMan Modernism
269
Cultures of Impression
298
Bibliography
331
Notes on Contributors
353
Index
355

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