Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer

IF 0.3 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/00138398.2022.2055854
Michelle Adler
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Focusing on the transnational lives of William Plomer (1903–1973) and the artist Edward Wolfe (1897–1982), this paper considers the formative influences of their South African heritage on their creative development, as well as the impact of European modernism on their work. In particular, a connection is made between Wolfe’s immersion in modernism and the Bloomsbury Group, and his subsequent influence on the writing of Plomer’s controversial novel, Turbott Wolfe (1926), including its suppressed homoerotic elements. Finally, the paper argues that Turbott Wolfe is shaped both by Plomer’s liminal position within South Africa’s segregationist colonial culture, as well as by his exposure to a metropolitan modernity marked by waning confidence in the teleology of empire.
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近乎对称:爱德华·沃尔夫和威廉·普洛默的跨国现代主义
着眼于威廉·普洛默(1903-1973)和艺术家爱德华·沃尔夫(1897-1982)的跨国生活,本文考虑了他们的南非遗产对他们的创作发展的形成影响,以及欧洲现代主义对他们工作的影响。特别是,沃尔夫沉浸在现代主义和布卢姆斯伯里派之间的联系,以及他后来对普洛默有争议的小说《特伯特·沃尔夫》(Turbott Wolfe, 1926)写作的影响,包括其中被压抑的同性恋元素。最后,本文认为特伯特·沃尔夫是由普洛默在南非种族隔离主义殖民文化中的有限地位,以及他对以帝国目的论信心减弱为标志的大都市现代性的暴露所塑造的。
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