Authors: Cinzia Sartini Blum
ISBN-13: 9780520200494, ISBN-10: 0520200497
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: June 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Cinzia Sartini Blum is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Iowa.
Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relations between the seemingly unrelated goals of Italian Futurism: technical revolution, espousal of violence, avowed misogyny, and rejection of literary tradition.
Blum argues for the centrality of the rhetoric of gender in Marinetti's work. She also investigates a diverse array of his futurist textual practices that range from formal experimentation with "words in freedom" to nationalist manifestos that advocate intervention in World War I and anticipate subsequent fascist rhetoric of power and virility. A major contribution to the study of the twentieth-century avant-garde and the first full-length study of Marinetti in English, The Other Modernism will interest all those concerned with twentieth-century literature, culture, and society and the problem of modern subjectivity.
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Preface | ||
1 | The Other Modernism: Futurism and Its Contradictions | 1 |
2 | The Rhetoric of Gender in the Manifestos | 29 |
3 | The Superman and the Abject: Mafarka le futuriste | 55 |
4 | The Heart with Watertight Compartments and the Travel-size Woman: Futurist Strategies in Love and War | 79 |
5 | The Hero's War and the Heroine's Wounds: Un ventre di donna | 105 |
6 | Transformations in the Futurist Mythopoeia | 125 |
Afterword: The Rhetoric of Violence and the Violence of Rhetoric | 163 | |
Notes | 165 | |
Index | 205 |