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Modern Primitives Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston
By Susanna Pavloska
Copyright 2000
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
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This 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... Read more
Chapter 1 Stein and Picasso: The Anti-Aesthetes; Chapter 2 The Fact of Blackness in “Melanctha”; Chapter 3 Hemingway's Primal Scene; Chapter 4 Zora Neale Hurston's Ethnological Fiction;
Biography
Susanna Pavloska
