Little Art Colony and US Modernism

Geneva M. Gano is Associate Professor of English and Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University. She is the current past President of the Robinson Jeffers Association.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Modernism beyond the MetropolisPart I: Carmel1. Race, Place, and Cultural Production in Carmel-by-the-Sea2. Robinson Jeffers, the Art Worker, and the ‘Carmel Idea’Part II: Provincetown 3. Building the Beloved Community in Provincetown4. Eugene O’Neill: Superpersonalization and Racial SpectacularismPart III: Taos5. Cultivating the Taos Mystique6. ‘Something Stood Up in my Soul’: D. H. Lawrence in TaosEpilogue: The Afterlife of the Little Arts Colony: Institutionalizing Creative CollectivitiesIndex

Geneva Gano’s account of literary modernism is one for our classrooms: richly situated in local history and global flows, and ever shadowed by racialized violence. [...] Like the best literary historical scholarship, this study plunges us into a past that is starkly other, but, at the same time, uncannily familiar, and thus confronts us with our own historicity.