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The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms
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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The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms
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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The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms

The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms

The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms

The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms

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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199324705
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 09/01/2013
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 752
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

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.

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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