Moon Michael Moon

Darger's Resources (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Henry Darger (1892-1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he wrote a 15,145-page fictional epic, In the Realms of the Unreal. He spent much of the rest of his long life illustrating it in astonishing drawings and watercolors. In Darger's unfolding saga, pastoral utopias are repeatedly savaged by extreme violence directed at children, particularly girls. Given his disturbing subject matter and the extreme solitude he maintained throughout his life, critics have characterized Darger as eccentric, deranged, and even dangerous, as an outsider artist compelled to create a fantasy universe. Contesting such pathologizing interpretations, Michael Moon looks to Darger's resources, to the narratives and materials that inspired him and often found their way into his writing, drawings, and paintings. Moon finds an artist who reveled in the burgeoning popular culture of the early twentieth century, in its newspaper comic strips, pulp fiction, illustrated children's books, and mass-produced religious art. Moon contends that Darger's work deserves and rewards comparison with that of contemporaries of his, such as the "pulp historians" H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Howard, the Oz chronicler L. Frank Baum, and the newspaper cartoonist Bud Fisher.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394891
• Artikelnr.: 54675277

Autorenporträt

Michael Moon is Professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. He is the author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass. His books, A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol; Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill (edited with Cathy N. Davidson); and Displacing Homophobia (edited with Ronald Butters and John M. Clum), are also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction 1
1. Darger's Book of Martyrs 25
2. Rotten Truths, Wasted Lives, Spoiled Collections: Darger's Work and the
Brontës' Juvenilia 43
3. Abduction, Adoption, Appropriation: Darger and the Early Newspaper Comic
Strip; or, Reading Around in the Ruins of a Proletarian Public Sphere 79
4. Weird Flesh, World's Flesh: Darger and the Pulps 101
Notes 131
Bibliography 141
Acknowledgments 145
Index 149