Modernism in a Global Context

✍ Scribed by Peter Kalliney

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Series: New Modernisms
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Exploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the 'global turn' in contemporary Modernist Studies.

Topics covered include:
- Transnational exchanges between Western and non-Western literary cultures
- Imperialism and the Modernism
- Cosmopolitanism and postcolonial literatures
- Global literary institutions - from the Little Magazine to the Nobel Prize
- Mass media - photography, cinema, and radio broadcasting in the modernist age

Exploring the work of writers such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie and critics such as Edward Said, Pascale Casanova, Paul Gilroy, and Gayatri Spivak amongst many others, the book also includes a comprehensive annotated guide to further reading and online resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Permissions......Page 7
Chapter 1 An aesthetics of motion......Page 8
David Damrosch......Page 13
Franco Moretti......Page 15
Pascale Casanova......Page 19
Gayatri Spivak......Page 21
Paul Gilroy......Page 23
Space and temporality......Page 25
Translation......Page 26
Racial and ethnic difference......Page 27
Genre......Page 28
What follows......Page 29
Chapter 2 Imperialism......Page 32
Landscapes of hierarchy and resistance......Page 35
Imperialism as domination......Page 37
Alternative cartographies......Page 38
Ambivalence and hybridity......Page 40
Metropolitan space......Page 42
Berlin modernism......Page 46
Olive Schreiner......Page 47
Joseph Conrad......Page 48
Elizabeth Bowen......Page 50
Karel Čapek......Page 52
Bandung modernism......Page 55
Aimé Césaire......Page 56
Pramoedya Ananta Toer......Page 59
M. G. Vassanji......Page 62
Concluding summary......Page 64
Chapter 3 Cosmopolitanism......Page 66
Cosmopolites and cosmo-skeptics......Page 70
Prescriptive cosmopolitanism......Page 73
Descriptive cosmopolitanism......Page 76
Nancy Cunard......Page 79
Nella Larsen......Page 83
Djuna Barnes......Page 87
Eileen Chang......Page 91
Concluding summary......Page 94
Note......Page 95
Chapter 4 Cultural institutions......Page 96
Pierre Bourdieu and his interlocutors......Page 99
Little magazines......Page 104
Independent publishers......Page 110
Festivals and conferences......Page 114
Cultural awards......Page 118
Concluding summary......Page 126
Notes......Page 127
Chapter 5 Media......Page 128
McLuhan, Kenner, and
the mechanic media......Page 132
Writing by other means......Page 135
Media ethics and ecologies......Page 136
Bearing across......Page 138
Photography......Page 141
Phonography......Page 146
Cinema......Page 151
Radio......Page 157
Concluding summary......Page 163
Modernities at large, or
one world system?......Page 164
Bibliography......Page 172
Index......Page 188