This book explores the way 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 an aesthetic, exemplified by Picasso and his use of African masks, that combined new work in the human sciences (especially anthropology and psychology) with new ideas in the visual arts to challenge traditional ideas of realism and artistic accomplishment. The first two chapters bring together visual evidence, published and unpublished writings, and linguistic theory to give the first detailed account of the theoretical and gender concerns of the Stein-Picasso collaboration, which culminated in Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon and Stein's Melanctha . In the final two chapters, the author shows how both Hemingway and Hurston participated in the racialist scientific debates of the 1920s and used primitivism to find their respective artistic voices. Hemingway did so in his use of American Indians in recasting his life narratives in the Nick Adams stories. Hurston did so in her attempts to use her anthropological training to construct a mythic African-American past.
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According to the legend inscribed in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, "practically every afternoon" during the winter of 1905 Gertrude Stein would walk through the Luxembourg Gardens to the Odeon, take the horse-drawn bus to Montmartre and climb the hill to Picasso's studio to sit for the portrait that now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Gertrude Stein, Three Lives, African Americans, Zora Neale Hurston, Native American, The Autobiography of Alice, William James, Franz Boas, Jeff Campbell, New York, Nick Adams, Lisa Ruddick, Richard Wright, The Good Anna, The Torrents of Spring, Zora Hurston, Alain Locke, Dust Tracks, Ole Massa, The Sun Also Rises, United States, Harlem Renaissance, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Langston Hughes, Leo Stein New!
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According to the legend inscribed in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, "practically every afternoon" during the winter of 1905 Gertrude Stein would walk through the Luxembourg Gardens to the Odeon, take the horse-drawn bus to Montmartre and climb the hill to Picasso's studio to sit for the portrait that now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modernist primitivism, free indirect discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gertrude Stein, Three Lives, African Americans, Zora Neale Hurston, Native American, The Autobiography of Alice, William James, Franz Boas, Jeff Campbell, New York, Nick Adams, Lisa Ruddick, Richard Wright, The Good Anna, The Torrents of Spring, Zora Hurston, Alain Locke, Dust Tracks, Ole Massa, The Sun Also Rises, United States, Harlem Renaissance, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Langston Hughes, Leo Stein New!
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- Time and Western Man by Wyndham Lewis on 4 pages
- Of Huck and Alice: Humorous Writing in American Literature by Neil Schmitz on 4 pages
- Fathers and Sons: Short Stories: Fathers and Sons: Short Stories (German Edition) by Hemingway on 4 pages
- Revolution in Poetic Language (European Perspectives Series) by Julia Kristeva in Front Matter, page 27, and Back Matter
- Totem and Taboo (Great Minds Series) by Sigmund Freud in Front Matter, page 62, and Back Matter
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