Darger's Resources

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the artist Henry Darger, an eccentric and self-taught artist whose work was only discovered after his death. This title shows how Darger drew on novels, comics, pulps, and the history of his time to produce a sometimes disturbing and sometimes joyful but always imaginative alternative world.

Autorentext
Michael Moon

Zusammenfassung
Focuses on the artist Henry Darger, an eccentric and self-taught artist whose work was only discovered after his death. This title shows how Darger drew on novels, comics, pulps, and the history of his time to produce a sometimes disturbing and sometimes joyful but always imaginative alternative world.

Inhalt
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

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