• Novel Dialogue 3.5: The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman talks to Shola von Reinhold (AV)

    Author(s):
    Ben Bateman, Aarthi Vadde, Shola von Reinhold
    Date:
    2022
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Criticism, Modernism (Literature), Archives
    Item Type:
    Podcast
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/f30r-2322
    Abstract:
    Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James Tait Black prize so who better to join Shola on Novel Dialogue than Ben Bateman of Edinburgh University, lead judge of the prize committee? This conversation takes listeners back to all yesterday's parties as Shola, Ben, and Aarthi time travel to the Harlem Renaissance and the interwar modernist era. Shola offers up Richard Bruce Nugent as their current figure of fascination (or "transfixion" to use a key image from LOTE), and wonders what it would have been like to move through Harlem and London by Nugent's side. Recovering the stories of black writers and artists is essential to Shola's literary project. It is also inseparable from restoring queerness to the once hyper-masculine and "muscular" paradigm of modernism. In a stirring discussion of the aesthetic forms and moods of historical recovery, Ben and Shola sink into the "purpleness" of the fin-de-siècle and explore the critical power of black sensuousness. Talk of decadence, ornamentality, and frivolity shapes the latter half of this episode, and Doris Payne, the West Virginian jewel thief, emerges as an exquisitely improbable modernist heroine!
    Notes:
    DOI : https://doi.org/10.48617/pod.380
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    Pub. URL:
    https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-romance-of-recovery-ben-bateman-talks-to-shola-von-reinhold-av
    Publisher:
    Society for Novel Studies
    Pub. Date:
    03/31/22
    Episode:
    3.5
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    11 months ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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