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The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria. Together, these essays offer the most comprehensive worldwide examination of modernist studies available. Topics covered include: Richard Wright and photographic modernism; poetry of the Caribbean; Chinese modernism and Lu Xun's Ah Q-The Real Story; Ben Okri and magical realism; aesthetic autonomy in Paris, Italy, Russia; Cuba's avant-gardes; geography of Hebrew and Yiddish modernism in Europe; Japanese modernism in works by Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi; and South African cinema.

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Author:   Mark Wollaeger (Professor of English, Professor of English, Vanderbilt University) ,  Matt Eatough
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.179kg
ISBN:  

9780199324705

ISBN 10:   0199324700
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   10 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Mark Wollaeger Part I : Opening Places, Opening Methods 1. The Balkans Uncovered: Towards Historie Croisée of Modernism Sanja Bahun 2 . Caribbean Modernism: Plantation to Planetary Mary Lou Emery Part II : Temporality 3. Berber Poetry and the Issue of Derivation: Alternate Symbolist Trajectories Edwige Tamalet Talbayev 4. The Temporalities of Modernity in Spanish American Modernismo : Darío's Bourgeois King Gerard Aching 5. Nation Time: Richard Wright, Black Power, and Photographic Modernism Sara Blair 6. Chinese Modernism, Mimetic Desire, and European Time Eric Hayot Part III : Whose Modernism? 7. The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism: Rereading Lu Xun's Ah Q-Th e Real Story Xudong Zhang 8. Neither Mirror nor Mimic: Transnational Reading and Indian Narratives in English Jessica Berman 9. Modernism and African Literature Neil Lazarus Part IV: Forms and Modes 10. "" Petro-Magic Realism"": Ben Okri's Infl ationary Modernism Sarah L. Lincoln 11. Little Magazines, World Form Eric Bulson 12. Poetry, Modernity, Globalization Jahan Ramazani Part V: Comparative Avant-Gardes 13. Futurist Geographies: Uneven Modernities and the Struggle for Aesthetic Autonomy: Paris, Italy, Russia, 1909-1914 Harsha Ram 14. Modernity's Labors in Latin America: Th e Cultural Work of Cuba's Avant-Gardes Vicky Unruh 15. Queer Internationalism and Modern Vietnamese Aesthetics Ben Tran Part VI: Forms of Sociality 16. Cosmopolitanism and Modernism Janet Lyon 17. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual Peter Kalliney 18. The Urban Literary Café and the Geography of Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism in Europe Shachar Pinsker Part VII : Locating the Transnational 19. Th e Circulation of Interwar Anglophone and Hispanic Modernisms Gayle Rogers 20. Scandinavian Modernism: Stories of the Transnational and the Discontinuous Anna Westerståhl Stenport 21. World Modernisms, World Literature, and Comparativity Susan Stanford Friedman Part VIII : Translation Zones: Culture, Language, Media 22. Modernism Disfi gured: Turkish Literature and the ""Other West"" Nergis Ertürk 23. Modernism's Translations Rebecca Beasley 24. Japanese Modernism and ""Cine-Text"": Fragments and Flows at Empire's Edge in Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi William O. Gardner Part IX : Film as Vernacular Modernism 25. T racking Cinema on a Global Scale Miriam Bratu Hansen 26. Visions of Modernity in Colonial India: Cinema,Women, and the City Manishita Dass 27. Vernacular Modernism and South African Cinema: Capitalism, Crime, and Styles of Desire Rosalind C. Morris Part X : Afterword 28. Modernist Studies and Inter-Imperiality in the Longue Durée Laura Doyle Notes on Contributors Index"

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Mark Wollaeger is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism (1990) and Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945. Matt Eatough is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.

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