Modernism at the Beach | Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons

Hannah Freed-Thall

ISBN 10: 0231197098 / ISBN 13: 9780231197090

Edité par Columbia University Press, 2023

Modernism at the Beach | Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons | Hannah Freed-Thall | Taschenbuch | Modernist Latitudes | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2023 | Columbia University Press | EAN 9780231197090 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. N° de réf. du vendeur 125178518

Synopsis :

Winner, 2024 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and more-than-human forces, the seashore is also a space of performance--a stage for loosely scripted, improvisatory forms of embodiment and togetherness.

The beach, Hannah Freed-Thall argues, was to the modernist imagination what mountains were to Romanticism: a space not merely of anthropogenic conquest but of vital elemental and creaturely connection. With an eye to the peripheries of capitalist leisure, Freed-Thall recasts familiar seaside practices--including tide-pooling, beachcombing, gambling, and sunbathing--as radical experiments in perception and sociability. Close readings of works by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Claude McKay, Samuel Beckett, Rachel Carson, and Gordon Matta-Clark, among others, explore the modernist beach as a queer refuge, a precarious commons, a scene of collective exhaustion and endurance, and a visionary threshold at the end of the world.

Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Modernism at the Beach offers new ways of understanding twentieth-century literature and its relation to ecological thought.

À propos de l'auteur: Hannah Freed-Thall is an associate professor of French literature, thought, and culture at New York University. She is the author of Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism (2015).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Modernism at the Beach | Queer Ecologies and...
Éditeur : Columbia University Press
Date d'édition : 2023
Reliure : Taschenbuch
Etat : Neu