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American superrealism: Nathanael West and the politics of representation in the 1930s

Jonathan Veitch
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Introduction: Who Can We Shoot? The Crisis of Representation in the 1930s (page 3)
  • PART I
    • 1. American Superrealism (page 15)
    • 2. Euclid's Asshole: The Dream Life of Balso Snell (page 23)
  • PART II
    • 3. "Lousy with Pure / Reeking with Stark": Contact (page 47)
    • 4. The People Talk: Miss Lonelyhearts (page 67)
    • 5. The Folklore of Capitalism: A Cool Million (page 88)
    • 6. The Clichés Are Having a Ball: The Day of the Locust (page 113)
  • Postscript: Madonna's Bustier; or "The Burning of Los Angeles" (page 132)
  • Notes (page 139)
  • Index (page 175)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AL 72.3 (Sep. 2000): 643-644 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2902521
ALH 13.2 (Summer 2001): 343-353 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3054608
AmQ 52.1 (Mar. 2000): 159-167 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30041830
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Published: c1997
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299157005 (hardcover)
  • 9780299157043 (paper)
  • 9780299157036 (ebook)
Subject
  • Literature
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