1st Edition
J.G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination Spectacular Authorship
By Jeannette Baxter
Copyright 2009
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Making the case that J. G. Ballard's fictional and non-fictional writings must be read within the framework of Surrealism, Jeannette Baxter argues for a radical revisioning of Ballard that takes account of the political and ethical dimensions of his work. Ballard's appropriation of diverse Surrealist aesthetic forms and political writings, Baxter suggests, are mobilised to contest official... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Mapping a surrealist historiography: recontextualising The Drowned World and The Crystal World; Reading The Atrocity Exhibition: a history of forms; Radical surrealism: performance, photography and history in Crash; Convulsive autobiography: negotiating history, memory and fiction in Empire of the Sun and The Kindness of Women; The surrealist Fait Divers: uncovering violent histories in Running Wild, Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes and Millennium People; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Jeannette Baxter is Senior Lecturer in English and Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
’... essential for anyone fascinated by the influence of Surrealism on post-war British culture.’ Arlis
