The politicised interpretation of literature has relied on models
of economic and social structures that oscillate between idealized
subversion and market fatalism. Current anthropological discussions
of mixed gift and commodity economies and the segmented politics of
house societies offer solutions to this problem and suggest
invaluable new directions for literary studies. Modernist Goods
uses recent discussions of gift and house practices to counter an
influential revisionist trend in modernist studies, a trend that
sees the capitalist marketplace and its public sphere as the
uniquely determining institutional structures in modern arts and
culture.
Glenn Willmott argues that a political unconscious forged by the
widespread marginalisation of pre-capitalist institutions comes to
the fore in modernist primitivism. Such primitivism, he insists, is
not superficially exoticist or simply appropriative of the cultural
heritage of others. Rather, it is at once parodic and authentic,
and often, in the language of Julia Kristeva, abject. Modernist
Goods examines such writers as Yeats, Conrad, Eliot, Woolf,
Beckett, H.D., and Joyce to uncover what the author views as their
displaced aboriginality and to investigate the relationship between
literary modernism and aboriginal modernity. By bringing current
anthropological developments to literary studies, it aims to
rethink the economic commitments of modernist literature and their
political significance.
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