LEADER 02768nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910451775103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-9889-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000346648 035 $a(EBL)310764 035 $a(OCoLC)476096177 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000106328 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11132847 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106328 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10109478 035 $a(PQKB)11599867 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310764 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310764 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10180212 035 $a(OCoLC)170571759 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000346648 100 $a20060524d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAshes taken for fire$b[electronic resource] $eaesthetic modernism and the critique of identity /$fKevin Bell 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-4900-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index. 327 $aHolographic 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. 330 $aKevin 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zEngland 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a823/.9109112 700 $aBell$b Kevin$f1966-$0866491 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451775103321 996 $aAshes taken for fire$91933982 997 $aUNINA