"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...
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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 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
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Sanja Bahun ; Caribbean Modernism: Plantation to Planetary: Part I : Opening Places, Opening Methods. The Balkans Uncovered: Toward Historie Croisée of Modernism
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev ; The Temporalities of Modernity in Spanish American Modernismo : Darío's Bourgeois King: Part II : Temporality. Berber Poetry and the Issue of Derivation: Alternate Symbolist Trajectories
Xudong Zhang ; Neither Mirror nor Mimic: Transnational Reading and Indian Narratives in English: Part III : Whose Modernism? The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism: Rereading Lu Xun's Ah Q-The Real Story
Sarah L. Lincoln ; Little Magazine, World Form: Part IV : Forms and Modes. " Petro-Magic Realism": Ben Okri's Inflationary Modernism
Harsha Ram ; Modernity's Labors in Latin America: The Cultural Work of Cuba's Avant-Gardes: Part V : Comparative Avant-Gardes. Futurist Geographies: Uneven Modernities and the Struggle for Aesthetic Autonomy: Paris, Italy, Russia, 1909-1914
Janet Lyon ; Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual: Part VI : Forms of Sociality. Cosmopolitanism and Modernism
Gayle Rogers ; Scandinavian Modernism: Stories of the Transnational and the Discontinuous: Part VII : Locating the Transnational. The Circulation of Interwar Anglophone and Hispanic Modernisms
Nergis Ertürk ; Modernism's Translations: Part VIII : Translation Zones: Culture, Language, Media. Modernism Disfigured: Turkish Literature and the "Other West"
Miriam Bratu Hansen ; Visions of Modernity in Colonial India: Cinema, Women, and the City: Part IX : Film as Vernacular Modernism. Tracking Cinema on a Global Scale
Laura Doyle: Part X : Afterword. Modernist Studies and Inter-Imperiality in the Longue Durée
