Megan Degonia itibaren Chontaduro, Antioquia, Colombia

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2019-09-17 01:40

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"Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's" is a perceptive and interesting cultural analysis of American Modernism in what Gertrude Stein described as the "the world's first twentieth century city." The book is full of both intriguing anecdotes and perceptive, if sometimes overly broad, analysis. Among the cast of characters that she draws on to make her arguments are W. E. B. Du Bois, Harry Houdini, Dorothy Parker, Edward Steichen, William James, Billy Wilder, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Hart Crane, Bessie Smith, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, Ethel Waters and Groucho Marx. Central to her argument are two processes that she sees as essential to the rise of Modernism. The first is the "mongrelization" of American Culture. Douglas persuasively argues that New York in the twenties saw the first significant cultural interaction between African-Americans, new immigrant arrivals from Europe (particularly Jewish immigrants) and white intellectuals and artists. The rise of mass media and popular culture only fueled the fire. Douglas most skillfully traces this phenomenon in the literary and musical arenas and is somewhat less successful when dealing with the plastic arts. Douglas also argues that, during the period from the end of World War I up until the beginning of the Great Depression, there was a profound rejection of Victorian society, dominated by a feminizing power, represented most typically by the temperance and suffrage movements, both of them led by women, as well as by the idealistic foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson and the "crusading matriarchal ethos" of figures like Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. Douglas sees the twenties as a period of countervailing "masculinization" of society, a process that was facilitated by both men and women. I really found this book enjoyable, informative and stimulating. I think she makes her case well; although, as is often the case with cultural histories that contain an overarching explanatory framework, she sometimes seems to over-extend her arguments.

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