Ashes taken for fire : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity /

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 presum...

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Author / Creator: Bell, Kevin, 1966-
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
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