In "American Silence," a complement to his previous study
"Trickster in the Land of Dreams," Zeese Papanikolas investigates a
number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of
their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public
successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest
Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Hank Williams resonate with
silences. These silences--absences and omissions--put them in
opposition to the American mythology of success and express the
essential solitude Alexis de Tocqueville found at the heart of the
American soul. The painters George Caleb Bingham and Jackson
Pollock and the New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq extend the
theme of erotic loss and the redemptive possibilities of art beyond
it into the realm of the visual. On a deeper level, the lives and
works of these writers, thinkers, artists, and public figures
connect them to more disturbing questions of American crimes of
race and despoliation. Their silences and reticences contain a
lingering pathos rooted in a consciousness of utopian possibility
just missed and to an unspoiled nature almost within living memory.
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