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Your Rating:. Your Comment:. They still slept. He got out of the bed in sections, like a poorly made automaton, and carted his hands into the bathroom.
He turned on the cold water. When the basin was full, he plunged his hands in up to the wrist. When they were thoroughly chilled and began to crawl about he lifted them out and hid them in a towel.
The essential difference between these two characterizations is one of control. Nonetheless, a bit of Freaks returns in Locust. Great masses of broken bodies, be they the scarred and amputated bodies of the war veterans or the degenerating and malnourished migrant workers from the Dust Bowl, filled the streets in the s.
The social movements that developed around these masses figured largely in the lives of the leftists, avowed communists, and intelligentsia of the West Coast. West himself cared deeply about social progress, though his work represses it entirely. Writing to Malcolm Cowley in , he confessed that:. What I mean is that out here we have a strong progressive move- ment and I devote a great deal of time to it.
Yet, although this new novel is about Hollywood, I found it impossible to include any of those activities in it. I made a desperate attempt before giving up. When not writing a novel—say at a meeting of a committee we have out here to help the migrant worker—I do believe it and try to act on that belief. Locust irritates the biological sensitivities of modernism eugenics, degeneration, etc.
While eugenics initially gained power in Great Britain after the Boer War, America soon came to embrace its ideals. By , the International Commission of Eugenics listed fifteen member nations, including the United States and Great Britain; the US National Origins Act of limited immigration based on eugenic principles of Nordic superiority; perhaps most shocking to the contemporary reader is the enactment, by , of sterilization laws in thirty American states Bradshaw 35 — Eliot, and D.
His critique of this ahistorical bricolage of architectural surfaces parallels the observations of eugenics proponent E. Atavism represents a further and perhaps more specific form of degeneration deployed in the modernist biological critique crowds.
Tod often perceives his fellow angelenos in terms bestial and atavistic. West describes Miguel as: toffee colored, with large Armenian eyes and pouting black lips. His head was a mass of tight, ordered curls. His soiled duck trousers were held up by a red bandanna handkerchief. On his feet were a pair of tattered tennis sneakers. The invocation of screen monsters in Locust dramatizes, among other things, the desire to control or assimilate the massive influx of immigrants, cultures, and humanity into the Los Angeles of the s.
Locust uses the thematic and allegorical currency of the monster as entry into the great anxiety over literary and artistic form that pathologically defines the modernist movement. Perhaps then the novel could be revitalized through formal mediation, bricolage, or collage—as Joyce had no doubt learned in his experience with Ulysses. West took representation as his subject. In the spring of , F. Locust was conceived amid the schlock with which creature films are often associated.
It lumbers along at a queerly uneven pace, and one is never sure what West is up to. As West struggled with form and the peculiar challenge of incor- porating political critique into his fiction, his own work was being transformed by the laborious process of scriptwriting as described in a letter to Josephine Herbst regarding his script work at Columbia :. My hours are from ten in the morning until six at night with a full day on Saturday.
They gave me a job to do five minutes after I sat down in my office. Dardis The monster is also a site of transformation: of the dead into the living, of a man into an animal, of a body-thing into a machine-thing. At the synthesis of script writing and novel writing—a novel about Holly- wood—Locust invoked the monster as a totem and familiar, an object of the unconscious with which his new form could identify.
Because the novel uses Hollywood monsters as a kind of narrative armature, one can logically turn to the critical discourse of the monster film in an attempt to study or understand the mechanizations and signifying practices of that arma- ture.
The repressed presence of disenfranchised and alienated labor—and the automated forces of globalization and industrialization which profited by this alienation— returns to the surface of the text in the eruptive and disruptive form of the monster.
I am deeply indebted to Hugh Ruppersburg and Robin Wharton University of Georgia for editorial contributions to earlier versions of this essay. Works Cited Bradshaw, David, ed. A Concise Companion to Modernism. Oxford: Black- well, David Bradshaw. Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell, Canetti, Elias, and Carol Stewart. Crowds and Power. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Carroll, Noel. Mark Jancovich.
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