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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Knight, Melinda. "Cultural Radicalism in the American Fin de Siecle: The Emergence of an Oppositional Literary Culture," New York University, April 1992. Advisor: Daniel Walkowitz (12, 11, 2)
Cultural radicalism in the American fin de siecle is represented by the lives and works of Ambrose Bierce, Lafcadio Hearn, Edgar Saltus, and contributors to the little magazines. These oppositional writers, who had connections with international currents of aestheticism and decadence, formed a generational bridge between the Dark Romantics and the Lost Generation. The dissertation situates them within their historical context and shows how they have been marginalized because of their political and aesthetic divergence from mainstream culture. They emerge as the true precursors of American modernism, with progressive and regressive tendencies, including contradictory impulses toward both feminism and misogyny.
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