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Ashes taken for fire [electronic resource] : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity / Kevin Bell.

By: Bell, Kevin, 1966-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007Description: x, 252 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Modernism (Literature) -- United States | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Modernism (Literature) -- EnglandGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 823/.9109112 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Holographic ensemble : the death of doubt itself in The nigger of the "Narcissus" -- Something savage, something pedantic : imaginary portraits of certitude in Jacob's room -- Maladjusted phantasms : the ontological question of blackness in Light in August -- The business of dreams : retailing presence in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Chaos and surface in Invisible man -- Assuming the position : fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.

Holographic ensemble : the death of doubt itself in The nigger of the "Narcissus" -- Something savage, something pedantic : imaginary portraits of certitude in Jacob's room -- Maladjusted phantasms : the ontological question of blackness in Light in August -- The business of dreams : retailing presence in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Chaos and surface in Invisible man -- Assuming the position : fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.