Grotesque Relations : Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State
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| Title: | Grotesque Relations : Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State |
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| Description: | In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state protection and regulation of the home. Modernists followed suit, turning the genre of domestic fiction inside out in order to represent new struggles on the border between home, market and state. Edmunds uses the work of Djuna Barnes, Jean Toomer, Tillie Olsen, Edna Ferber, Nathanael West, and Flannery O'Connor to trace the significance of modernists'radical reconstitution of the genre of domestic fiction. Using a grotesque aesthetic of revolutionary inversion, these writers looped their depictions of the domestic sphere through revolutionary discourses associated with socialism, consumerism and the avant-garde. These authors used their grotesque discourses to deal with issues of social conflict ranging from domestic abuse and racial violence to educational reform, public health care, eugenics, and social security. With the New Deal, the U.S. welfare state realized maternalist ambitions to disseminate a modern sentimental version of the home to all white citizens, successfully translating radical bids for collective social security into a racialized order of selective and detached domestic security. The book argues that modernists engaged and contested this historical trajectory from the start. In the process, they forged an enduring set of terms for understanding and negotiating the systemic forms of ambivalence, alienation and conflict that accompany Americans'contemporary investments in'family values.' |
| Authors: | Susan Edmunds |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Public welfare--United States--History--20th century, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, Welfare state in literature, Grotesque in literature, Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--United States, Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century |
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