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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Ser.: Modern Primitives : Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston by Susanna Pavloska (2016, Trade Paperback)

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Modern Primitives : Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston, Paperback by Pavloska, Susanna, ISBN 1138976261, ISBN-13 9781138976269, Brand New, Free shipping in the US First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101138976261

ISBN-139781138976269

eBay Product ID (ePID)229524225

Product Key Features

Number of Pages154 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameModern Primitives : Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston

Publication Year2016

SubjectWomen Authors, General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorSusanna Pavloska

SeriesLiterary Criticism and Cultural Theory Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal810.9/355

SynopsisThis book explores the ways in which the American writers Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston used modernist primitivism to assert a uniquely American literary identity in the face of European cultural hegemony. The extended Introduction traces the history of primitivism from a classical rhetorical trope to its emergence in the twentieth century as aesthetic, exemplified by Picasso and his use of African masks, that combined new work in the human sciences especially anthropology and psychology, with new ideas in the visual arts to challenge traditional ideas of realism and artistic accomplishment. The first two chapters bring together visual evidence, published and unpublished writings, and linguistic theory to give the first detailed account of the theoretical and gender concerns of the Stein-Picasso collaboration, which culminated in Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon and Stein's Melanctha. In the final two chapters, the author shows how both Hemingway and Hurston participated in the racialist scientific debates of the 1920s and used primitivism to find their respective artistic voices: Hemingway in his use of American Indians in recasting his life narratives in the Nick Adams stories, and Hurston in her attempts to use her anthropological training to construct a mythic African-American past.