Ashes taken for fire; aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity.9780816649013 Ashes taken for fire; aesthetic modernism modernism, in religion, a general movement in the late 19th and 20th cent. that tried to reconcile historical Christianity with the findings of modern science and philosophy. and the critique of identity. Bell, Kevin KEVIN Keepers of the Eternal Vigilance of the Islamic Nation (fictional, from White Teeth by Zadie Smith) . U. of Minnesota Minnesota, state, United States Minnesota (mĭn'ĭsō`tə), upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bordered by Lake Superior and Wisconsin (E), Iowa (S), South Dakota and North Dakota (W), and the Canadian provinces Press 2007 252 pages $22.50 Paperback PS374 Taking a contrarian Contrarian An investment style that goes against prevailing market trends by buys assets that are performing poorly and selling when they perform well. Notes: A contrarian investor believes that the people who say the market is going up do so only when they are fully position, Bell (English, comparative literary studies, Northwestern U.) argues that modernism exposes cultural identities, such as blackness, as mere strategies of conforming the self into belonging. Examining the questions of nonidentity through sound, silence and gesture, he surveys fiction by Conrad, Woolf, Faulkner, West, Ellison and Himes to show that modernism is a sharply philosophical archive. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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