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Breece D’J Pancake, Peripheral Modernist
Breece D’J Pancake, Peripheral Modernist // Umjetnost riječi, LXVI (2022), 2; 199-218 doi:10.22210/ur.2022.066.2/04 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Breece D’J Pancake, Peripheral Modernist
Autori
Cvek, sven
Izvornik
Umjetnost riječi (0503-1583) LXVI
(2022), 2;
199-218
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni
Ključne riječi
Breece D’J Pancake, literary regionalism, capitalism, peripherality, modernism, utopia
Sažetak
In this essay I discuss the short stories of the Appalachian and West Virginian writer Breece D’J Pancake (1952-1979) in order to reflect on the ways in which the experience of peripherality comes to be registered in literature. Taking a cue from recent articulations of world literature as the literature of the capitalist world system, I argue that Pancake is a peripheral modernist: the formal oscillation between a realism traditionally associated with regionalist writing and irrealist” elements stands as a mark of his peripherality. Both the class focus of Pancake’s stories and their broad environmental theme may be regarded as symptoms of the region’s structural position within the processes of capital accumulation. I maintain that there is a utopian impulse permeating Pancake’s fiction. It can be located in Pancake’s descriptions of the environment and the temporal disjunctions present in his stories.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost
