02768nam 2200601 a 450 991045177510332120200520144314.00-8166-9889-9(CKB)1000000000346648(EBL)310764(OCoLC)476096177(SSID)ssj0000106328(PQKBManifestationID)11132847(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106328(PQKBWorkID)10109478(PQKB)11599867(MiAaPQ)EBC310764(Au-PeEL)EBL310764(CaPaEBR)ebr10180212(OCoLC)170571759(EXLCZ)99100000000034664820060524d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAshes taken for fire[electronic resource] aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity /Kevin BellMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4900-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.Holographic ensemble : the death of doubt itself in The nigger of the "Narcissus" -- Something savage, something pedantic : imaginary portraits of certitude in Jacob's room -- Maladjusted phantasms : the ontological question of blackness in Light in August -- The business of dreams : retailing presence in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Chaos and surface in Invisible man -- Assuming the position : fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes.Kevin Bell surveys fiction by Conrad, Woolf, Faulkner, West, Ellison, and Himes to argue that modernism exposes cultural identities such as blackness as mere strategies of conforming the self into belonging. 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.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)EnglandElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)English fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)823/.9109112Bell Kevin1966-866491MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451775103321Ashes taken for fire1933982UNINA