Encountering choran community
Subtitle: literary modernism, visual culture, and political aesthetics in the interwar years
By: Emily M. Hinnov.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Selinsgrove, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781575911304
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Self in literature; Authors and readers; Psychoanalysis and literature; Fiction -- Psychological aspects; Photography -- Psychological aspects; Reader-response criticism; Modernism (Literature); Literature and photography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: literary and photographic modernisms: counternarratives of self and community; title: The phantasmic mother: Virginia Woolf's fiction, Gertrude Kasebier's photography, and utopian maternal longing; title: Connecting with the self/other: the problem of primitivism and the choran moment in Nella Larsen's Quicksand; title: A counterreading to conquest: primitivism and utopian longing in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Mr. Fortune's maggot; title: Modernist visions of "self" within community in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God; title: From fragment to choran community in the late work of Virginia Woolf; title: Conclusion: the legacy of choran community: a vision of ethical encounter in James Agee and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men.