In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen argues that American literary
modernism is, at its heart, an effort to mourn for the injuries
inflicted by modern capitalism. He demonstrates that the most
celebrated literary movement of the 20th century is structured by a
deep conflict between political hope and despair - between the fear
that alienation and exploitation were irresistible facts of life
and the yearning for a more just and liberated society. He traces
this conflict in the works of a dozen novelists and poets - ranging
from Eliot, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Hurston, Hughes, and Tillie
Olsen. Taking John Dos Passos' neglected U.S.A. trilogy as a
central case study, he demonstrates how the struggle between
reparative social mourning and melancholic despair shaped the
literary strategies of a major modernist writer and the political
fate of the American Left. Mourning Modernity offers a bold new map
of the modernist tradition, as well as an important contribution to
the cultural history of American radicalism and to contemporary
theoretical debates about mourning and trauma.
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