making a whole present
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ALT Concept art for an idea. Lightbulb with a map of the earth.
ALT A neon blue background with a black outline. In the bottom right corner is a lighter blue circle with a silhouette of Zora Neale Hurston inside. Next to it is a smaller dark blue circle containing a QR code. At the top is a medium blue strip with the title of the institute, Hurston on the Horizon; Past, Present and Future. Below that is the event information.
ALT Is In and Out of Sight a composite of multiple close readings or a unified, general theory of modernism? Is it “weak” or “strong?” Beeston’s first book exemplifies the limitations of this question. Her work leads this reader, instead, to take up Madelyn Detloff’s suggestion that we shift from questions of “weakness” and “strength” to ask if a method is “relatively open or relatively closed.” Beeston encodes her “strong” combination of theoretical, formalist, and archival rigor within an open—composite, fractured, sutured—reading practice. It is this openness, rather than the book’s “weakness” or “strength,” that is sure to make it durable for generations of future scholars willing to read in the gaps.
