 | Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- England; 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 OC voidedOCO character is reprojected in this work as an immanent force of possibility and experimentation." |
