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Mina Loy is recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the body, but her fascination with corporeality is inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the soul. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle demonstrates how Loy's visceral focus propels a prescient, mystical feminist vision that aims to resituate marginalised subjects within modernist culture.
Nethered Regions - An Anatomy of Mina Loy provides new thinking on Loy's approach to the foundations of existence, exploring sentience, primitivism, evolution, vitalism, and sensibility. Dubbing Loy an atavistic vanguardist, this book aligns sacrifice with satire, showing how Loy resists modernist anti-sentimentality by devising a feminist satirical mode in which sardonic aggression generates intimacy and proximity, rather than ironised distance.
Loy's attention to "low" body parts - feet, legs, genitals, bellies, wombs - is illuminated in chapters theorising her engagement with dissident sexualities (queerness, prostitution, women's pleasure); pictorial-poetic cartographies of desire; and the accursed muse, the unsung counterpart to the poète maudit.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface. "Of the Cuttings a Garden of Ecstasy": Anatomising Mina Loy
Part I
Introduction. "About to be a Body": Loy's Corporeality
1. Loy's Atavistic Avant-Gardism
"Being Alive": Sentience
"Primeval Recognitions": Primitivism
"Trailing the Rest of the Animal Behind": Evolution
"Cosmic Force": Vitalism
2. Bodies Sacrificial & Intimate
"Passional Compromise": Modernist Sentimental Economies
"Surplus Potency": Sacrifice
"The Instigatory Caress": Satire and Intimacy
"Transpierced Parts" and "Salvation": Crucifixions
"'Inordinate Chastity'": Virgins
Part II
3. Feet, Legs, Genitals: The Pornographies of Loy's Punctuation
*: Queer Pleasures, Women's Pleasure
The Unsentimental Economy of Prostitution
Feminist Pornographies
The Traffic in Men: Punctuating the Sacred Gigolo
Collapsing, Soaring: Transcendent Fallenness
Derouted Soles, Phraseless Parentheses: Feet and Legs
•, - - -: Puncta and Desire Lines
4. "Upon Bossed Bellies": Loy & the Accursed Muse
The Accursed Poet
The Accursed Muse
Voicing Damnation: Loy's Muses
The Stomach
Bibliography
Index
