Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital

Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, this volume provides a look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of 20th-century American culture. Organized around the idea of incorporation - embodiment, repressed memory and advanced capitalism - the work covers a wide range of topics: Josephine Baker’s hot house style ; myth-making and the Hoover Dam; trauma, poetics and the Armenian genocide; feminist kitsch and the recuperation of North America’s Great Lady painters; Gertrude Stein and Jewish Social Science; the Reno Divorce factory and the production of gender; and Andy Razaf and Black Bolshevism. Collectively, the essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting. The contributors include Maria Damon, Walter Kalidjian, Walter Lew, Janet Lyon, William J. Maxwell, Cary Nelson and Paula Rabinowitz.