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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Ser.: Modern Primitives : Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston by Susanna Pavloska (2001, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100815336500
ISBN-139780815336501
eBay Product ID (ePID)1709457
Product Key Features
Number of Pages154 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameModern Primitives : Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston
Publication Year2001
SubjectAmerican / African American, Women Authors, General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorSusanna Pavloska
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesLiterary Criticism and Cultural Theory Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.7 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2002-280643
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal810.9/355
Table Of ContentChapter 1 Stein and Picasso: The Anti-Aesthetes; Chapter 2 The Fact of Blackness in "Melanctha"; Chapter 3 Hemingway's Primal Scene; Chapter 4 Zora Neale Hurston's Ethnological Fiction;
SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which the American writers Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston used modernist primitivism to assert a uniquely American literary identity in the face of European cultural hegemony. The extended Introduction traces the history of primitivism from a classical rhetorical trope to its emergence in the twentieth century as aesthetic, exemplified by Picasso and his use of African masks, that combined new work in the human sciences especially anthropology and psychology, with new ideas in the visual arts to challenge traditional ideas of realism and artistic accomplishment. The first two chapters bring together visual evidence, published and unpublished writings, and linguistic theory to give the first detailed account of the theoretical and gender concerns of the Stein-Picasso collaboration, which culminated in Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon and Stein's Melanctha. In the final two chapters, the author shows how both Hemingway and Hurston participated in the racialist scientific debates of the 1920s and used primitivism to find their respective artistic voices: Hemingway in his use of American Indians in recasting his life narratives in the Nick Adams stories, and Hurston in her attempts to use her anthropological training to construct a mythic African-American past., This book explores the ways in which the American writers Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston used modernist primitivism to assert a uniquely American literary identity in the face of European cultural hegemony.
LC Classification NumberPS374.R32P38 2000
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