Planetary Modernisms

Provocations on Modernity Across Time
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-17090-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 813 g

Reihe: Modernist Latitudes

Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study.

Friedman moves from large-scale instances of pre-1500 modernities, such as Tang Dynasty China and the Mongol Empire, to small-scale instances of modernisms, including the poetry of Du Fu and Kabir and Abbasid ceramic art. She maps the interconnected modernisms of the long twentieth century, pairing Joseph Conrad with Tayeb Salih, E. M. Forster with Arundhati Roy, Virginia Woolf with the Tagores, and Aimé Césaire with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She reads postcolonial works from Sudan and India and engages with the idea of Négritude. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence, elevating the agencies and creative capacities of all cultures not only in the past and present but also in the century to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedman, Susan Stanford

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceIntroductionPart I. Rethinking Modernist Studies1. Definitional Excursions2. PlanetarityPart II. Rethinking Modernity, Scaling Space and Time3. Stories of Modernity: Planetary Scale in the Longue Durée4. Figures of Modernity: Relational KeywordsPart III. Rethinking Modernism, Reading Modernisms5. Modernity's Modernisms: Aesthetic Scale and Pre-1500 Modernisms6. Circulating Modernisms: Collages of Empire in Fictions of the Long Twentieth Century7. Diasporic Modernisms: Journeys "Home" in Long Poems of Aimé Césaire and Theresa Hak Kyung ChaConclusion. A Debate with MyselfNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Stanford Friedman is the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies, the Hilldale Professor of the Humanities, and director for the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin;Madison. She is the author of Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D.; Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity; H.D.'s Fiction; and Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter, which won the Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies. She has edited Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle and coedited Signets Reading H.D.; Joyce: The Return of the Repressed; and Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses. Her work has been translated into Chinese, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbian, and Spanish.