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American Obscurantism: History and the Visual in U.S. Literature and Film by Peter Lurie (review)
Ist Teil von
Modern Fiction Studies, 2020-12, Vol.66 (4), p.786-789
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Questions about the accessibility and transparency (or otherwise) of history, the occlusion of power, and the presence-as-absence—through their representation in culture—of marginal or subaltern identities, have shaped orthodox approaches to the humanities since at least the theoretical turn of the later twentieth century. Lurie’s work, however, significantly extends this received critical context, not least in its identification of a distinctive, and specifically racialized (white) tradition in US cultural history, a finding that broadens the discussion beyond the localized function of specific genres or representational modes. If these leaps across historical time may appear obtrusive or glib to some readers, it is important to note that they are entirely consistent—formally, as it were—with Lurie’s repudiation of new historicism, helping embed his skepticism about received historicist practice within the structural organization of the book itself, in the commonalities he finds at play in texts written and filmed a century and a half apart.