Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture, and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years

Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture, and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years
ISBN-10
1575911302
ISBN-13
9781575911304
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
247
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Susquehanna University Press
Author
Emily M. Hinnov

Description

Through a transnational perspective, Emily M. Hinnov's Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years identifies and describes modernist "choran community" as a previously understudied key counter-narrative to Modernism's engagement with early twentieth-century master narratives. Hinnov uses the term choran community in order to emphasize the almost sacred nature of the experience represented in common by select modernist texts, photographs, and photo-texts produced in the interwar period. As Hinnov describes, choran community comes about as a result of the "choran moment," or, textual instant when characters and/or readers (re)cognize their connection with a larger, inherently unified whole. Whether in a visual, verbal, or hybrid text, the stasis of the choran moment contains the potent possibility of communal awareness, or choran community, in the future as well as the present. The textual choran communities presented here consequently offset the sexist, racist, and classist solipsism of imperialist or fascist master narrative. Emily N. Hinnov is Assistant Professor of English at Bowling Green State University, Firelands College.

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