Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the...
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Author: Hannah Freed-Thall
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Language: English
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Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons by Freed-Thall, Hannah

Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons

Dhs. 331.62

Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons

Dhs. 331.62
Author: Hannah Freed-Thall
Format: Paperback
Language: English

At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and more-than-human forces, the seashore is also a space of performance--a stage for loosely scripted, improvisatory forms of embodiment and togetherness.

The beach, Hannah Freed-Thall argues, was to the modernist imagination what mountains were to Romanticism: a space not merely of anthropogenic conquest but of vital elemental and creaturely connection. With an eye to the peripheries of capitalist leisure, Freed-Thall recasts familiar seaside practices--including tide-pooling, beachcombing, gambling, and sunbathing--as radical experiments in perception and sociability. Close readings of works by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Claude McKay, Samuel Beckett, Rachel Carson, and Gordon Matta-Clark, among others, explore the modernist beach as a queer refuge, a precarious commons, a scene of collective exhaustion and endurance, and a visionary threshold at the end of the world.

Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Modernism at the Beach offers new ways of understanding twentieth-century literature and its relation to ecological thought.

Author: Hannah Freed-Thall
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 03/07/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780231197090

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