Modernism in a Global Context

✍ Scribed by Peter J. Kalliney

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

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✦ 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 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
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Permissions
Chapter 1 An aesthetics of motion
David Damrosch
Franco Moretti
Pascale Casanova
Gayatri Spivak
Paul Gilroy
Space and temporality
Translation
Racial and ethnic difference
Genre
What follows
Chapter 2 Imperialism
Landscapes of hierarchy and resistance
Imperialism as domination
Alternative cartographies
Ambivalence and hybridity
Metropolitan space
Berlin modernism
Olive Schreiner
Joseph Conrad
Elizabeth Bowen
Karel Čapek
Bandung modernism
Aimé Césaire
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
M. G. Vassanji
Concluding summary
Chapter 3 Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolites and cosmo-skeptics
Prescriptive cosmopolitanism
Descriptive cosmopolitanism
Nancy Cunard
Nella Larsen
Djuna Barnes
Eileen Chang
Concluding summary
Note
Chapter 4 Cultural institutions
Pierre Bourdieu and his interlocutors
Little magazines
Independent publishers
Festivals and conferences
Cultural awards
Concluding summary
Notes
Chapter 5 Media
McLuhan, Kenner, and the mechanic media
Writing by other means
Media ethics and ecologies
Bearing across
Photography
Phonography
Cinema
Radio
Concluding summary
Conclusion
Modernities at large, or one world system?
Bibliography
Index

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