Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital

Published by New York University Press 2000

Modernism, Inc.

Body, Memory, Capital

Edited by: Jani Scandura and Michael Thurston

Volume 7 in the series Cultural Front

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814786758.001.0001

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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.

Author / Editor information

Scandura Jani :

Jani Scandura is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.Thurston Michael :

Michael Thurston is Assistant Professor of English at Yale.

Reviews

Buried Gold.

Fetching volume of thirteen radiant interventions.

Eric Lott,author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class:
This consistently striking and fresh collection explores modernity's encryptions in bodies and machines, phantoms and genocidal trauma, nativism and bolshevism. I'm still trying to put it down.

Rita Felski,author of Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture:
An intriguing investigation of the cultures and counter-cultures of modernity. Dealing in subjects ranging from black bolshevism to feminist kitsch, from the Hoover Dam to the Reno divorce factory, the authors retell the story of American modernity in ways that are fascinating, illuminating and often unexpected.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION: AMERICA AND THE PHANTOM MODERN Jani Scandura and Michael Thurston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I BODY
1. MACHINE DREAMS Kathleen Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. JOSEPHINE BAKER’S HOTHOUSE Janet Lyon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. TRESPASSING THE COLORLINE: AGGRESSIVE MOBILITY AND SEXUAL TRANGRESSION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW NEGRO MODERNITY Marlon B. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4. BODIES, VOICES, WORDS: MODERN DRAMA AND THE PROBLEM OF THE LITERARY Julia A. Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
II MEMORY
5. NO ONE IS BURIED IN HOOVER DAM Daniel Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
6. THE EDGE OF MODERNISM: GENOCIDE AND THE POETICS OF TRAUMATIC MEMORY Walter Kalaidjian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
7. WRITING, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND ETHNICITY IN GERTRUDE STEIN AND CERTAIN OTHERS Maria Damon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
8. JEAN TOOMER’S CANE, MODERNIZATION, AND THE SPECTRAL FOLK David G. Nicholls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
9. GRAFTS, TRANSPLANTS, TRANSLATION: THE AMERICANIZING OF YOUNGHILL KANG Walter K. Lew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
III CAPITAL
10. GREAT LADY PAINTERS, INC.: ICONS OF FEMINISM, MODERNISM, AND THE NATION Paula Rabinowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
11. KITCHEN MECHANICS AND PARLOR NATIONALISTS: ANDY RAZAF, BLACK BOLSHEVISM, AND HARLEM’S RENAISSANCE William J. Maxwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
12. RENO-VATING GENDER: PLACE, PRODUCTION, AND THE RENO DIVORCE FACTORY Jani Scandura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
13. POLITICS AND LABOR IN POETRY OF THE FIN DE SIÈCLE AND BEYOND: FRAGMENTS OF AN UNWRITABLE HISTORY Cary Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: August 1, 2000
ISBN: 9780814786758