Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material

Title The Oxford handbook of global modernisms / edited by Mark Wollaeger ; with Matt Eatough.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
©2012

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PN56.M54 O94 2012    Available  ---
Description viii, 740 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Opening places, opening methods: Balkans uncovered : toward Historie Croisée of Modernism / Sanja Bahun ; Caribbean modernism : plantation to planetary / Mary Lou Emery -- Temporality: Berber poetry and the issue of derivation : alternate symbolist trajectories / Edwige Tamalet Talbayev ; Temporalities of modernity in Spanish American Modernismo : Darío's bourgeois king / Gerard Aching ; Nation time : Richard Wright, Black power, and photographic modernism / Sara Blair ; Chinese modernism, mimetic desire, and European time / Eric Hayot -- Whose modernism?: Will to allegory and the origin of Chinese modernism : rereading Lu Xun's Ah Q-The Real Story / Xudong Zhang ; Neither mirror nor mimic : transnational reading and Indian narratives in English / Jessica Berman ; Modernism and African literature / Neil Lazarus -- Forms and modes: "Petro-Magic Realism" : Ben Okri's inflationary modernism / Sarah L. Lincoln ; Little magazine, world form / Eric Bulson ; Poetry, modernity, and globalization / Jahan Ramazani -- Comparative avant-gardes: Futurist geographies : uneven modernities and the struggle for aesthetic autonomy : Paris, Italy, Russia, 1909-1914 / Harsha Ram ; Modernity's labors in Latin America : Cultural work of Cuba's avant-gardes / Vicky Unruh ; Queer internationalism and modern Vietnamese aesthetics / Ben Tran -- Forms of sociality: Cosmopolitanism and modernism / Janet Lyon ; Jean Rhys : left bank modernist as postcolonial intellectual / Peter Kalliney ; Urban literary café and the geography of Hebrew and Yiddish modernism in Europe / Shachar Pinsker -- Locating the transnational: Circulation of interwar anglophone and Hispanic modernisms / Gayle Rogers ; Scandinavian modernism : stories of the transnational and the discontinuous / Anna Westerståhl Stenport ; World modernisms, world literature, and comparativity / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Translation zones : culture, language, media: Modernism disfigured : Turkish literature and the "other west" / Nergis Ertürk ; Modernism's translations / Rebecca Beasley ; Japanese modernism and "cine-text" : fragments and flows at empire's edge in Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi / William O. Gardner -- Film as vernacular modernism: Tracking cinema on a global scale / Miriam Bratu Hansen ; Visions of modernity in colonial India : cinema, women, and the city / Manishita Dass;- Vernacular modernism and South African cinema : capitalism, crime, and styles of desire / Rosalind C. Morris -- Afterword: Modernist studies and inter-imperiality in the Longue Durée / Laura Doyle.
Summary "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"--Publisher's website.
Subject Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Added Author Wollaeger, Mark A., 1957-
Eatough, Matt.
Added Title Handbook of global modernisms
Global modernisms
ISBN 0195338901 acid-free paper
0199324700 paperback
9780195338904 acid-free paper
9780199324705 paperback