Overview

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 present a fresh examination of modernist works from around the world. 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: 24.90cm , Height: 5.30cm , Length: 18.50cm
Weight:   1.494kg
ISBN:  

9780195338904

ISBN 10:   0195338901
Pages:   750
Publication Date:   31 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 3 Mark Wollaeger Part I : Opening Places, Opening Methods 1. Th e Balkans Uncovered: Towards Historie Croisée of Modernism 25 Sanja Bahun 2 . Caribbean Modernism: Plantation to Planetary 48 Mary Lou Emery Part II : Temporality 3. Berber Poetry and the Issue of Derivation: Alternate Symbolist Trajectories 81 Edwige Tamalet Talbayev 4. The Temporalities of Modernity in Spanish American M odernismo : Darío's Bourgeois King 109 Gerard Aching 5. Nation Time: Richard Wright, Black Power , and Photographic Modernism 129 Sara Blair 6. Chinese Modernism, Mimetic Desire, and European Time 149 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 173 Xudong Zhang 8. Neither Mirror nor Mimic: Transnational Reading and Indian Narratives in English 205 Jessica Berman 9. Modernism and African Literature 228 Neil Lazarus Part IV : Forms and Modes 10. "" Petro-Magic Realism"": Ben Okri's Infl ationary Modernism 249 Sarah L. Lincoln 11. Little Magazines, World Form 267 Eric Bulson 12. Poetry, Modernity, Globalization 288 Jahan Ramazani Part V : Comparative Avant-Gardes 13. Futurist Geographies: Uneven Modernities and the Struggle for Aesthetic Autonomy: Paris, Italy, Russia, 1909-1914 313 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 367 Ben Tran Part VI : Forms of Sociality 16. Cosmopolitanism and Modernism 387 Janet Lyon 17. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual 413 Peter Kalliney 18. The Urban Literary Café and the Geography of Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism in Europe 433 Shachar Pinsker Part VII : Locating the Transnational 19. Th e Circulation of Interwar Anglophone and Hispanic Modernisms 461 Gayle Rogers 20. Scandinavian Modernism: Stories of the Transnational and the Discontinuous 478 Anna Westerståhl Stenport 21. World Modernisms, World Literature, and Comparativity 499 Susan Stanford Friedman Part VIII : Translation Zones: Culture, Language, Media 22. Modernism Disfi gured: Turkish Literature and the ""Other West"" 529 Nergis Ertürk 23. M odernism's Translations 551 Rebecca Beasley 24. Japanese Modernism and ""Cine-Text"": Fragments and Flows at Empire's Edge in Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi 571 William O. Gardner Part IX : Film as Vernacular Modernism 25. T racking Cinema on a Global Scale 601 Miriam Bratu Hansen 26. V isions of Modernity in Colonial India: Cinema, Women, and the City 627 Manishita Dass 27. Vernacular Modernism and South African Cinema: Capitalism, Crime, and Styles of Desire 646 Rosalind C. Morris Part X : Afterword 28. Modernist Studies and Inter-Imperiality in the Longue Durée 669 Laura Doyle Notes on Contributors 697 Index"

Reviews

a truly remarkable collection of interdisciplinary, scholarly essays that span the globe in reexamining, polemicizing, and generally expanding the critical concept of modernism. D.C. Maus, CHOICE

a truly remarkable collection of interdisciplinary, scholarly essays that span the globe in reexamining, polemicizing, and generally expanding the critical concept of modernism. * D.C. Maus, CHOICE *

Author Information

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 (2006), as well as editor of two collections of essays on Joyce. Matt Eatough is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Vanderbilt University.

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