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Book SynopsisAn examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting.
Trade ReviewAn intriguing investigation of the cultures and counter-cultures of modernity. Dealing in subjects ranging from black bolshevism to feminist kitsch, from the Hoover Dam to the Reno divorce factory, the authors retell the story of American modernity in ways that are fascinating, illuminating and often unexpected. -- Rita Felski,author of Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture
This consistently striking and fresh collection explores modernity's encryptions in bodies and machines, phantoms and genocidal trauma, nativism and bolshevism. I'm still trying to put it down. -- Eric Lott,author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Fetching volume of thirteen radiant interventions. * Cultural Critique *
Buried Gold. * Choice *
