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Book SynopsisFocuses on modernism as a global phenomenon. This work considers modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization; and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, and the gender-determined.
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. . . [these] contributors seek to de-Westernize concepts of modernity and modernism and to give voice to that' domain of the other' that was either appropriated by the European avant-garde for whom 'primitivists are modern while natives are not' . . . or simply regarded as falling altogether outside the modernist paradigm. Vol. 103.1 (Jan. 2008)
-- Peter Nicholls * University of Sussex *
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: The Global Horizons of Modernism Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel
I. Modernisms' Alternative Genealogies
1. The Future of an Allusion: The Color of Modernity Aldon Lynn Nielsen
2. Africa and the Epiphany of Modernism Simon Gikandi
3. Liberty, Race, and Larsen in Atlantic Modernity: A New World Genealogy Laura Doyle
4. The Geopolitics of Affect in the Poetry of Brazilian Modernism Fernando J. Rosenberg
5. Ongoing War and Arab Humanism Ken Seigneurie
6. On the Ganges Side of Modernism: Raghubir Singh, Amitav Ghosh, and the Postcolonial Modern Ariela Freedman
II. Modernisms' Contested States
7. Twentieth-Century Chinese Modernism and Globalizing Modernity: Three Auteur Directors of Taiwan New Cinema Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang
8. Against "Library-Shelf Races": José Martí's Critique of Excessive Imitation Gerard Aching
9. Modernist (Pre)Occupations: Haiti, Primitivism, and Anticolonial Nationalism Patricia E. Chu
10. Gadze Modernism Janet Lyon
11. Cabaret Modernism: Vorticism and Racial Spectacle Laura Winkiel
III. Modernisms' Imagined Geographies
12. Township Modernism Ian Baucom
13. Paranoia, Pollution, and Sexuality: Affiliations between E. M. Forster's A Passage to India and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things Susan Stanford Friedman
14. Unreal City and Dream Deferred: Psychogeographies of Modernism in T. S. Eliot and Langston Hughes Eluned Summers-Bremner
15. Modernism's Possible Geographies Jessica Berman
16. Modernism(s) Inside Out: History, Space, and Modern American Indian Subjectivity in Cogewea: The Half-Blood Justine Dymond
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