Planetary modernisms : provocations on modernity across time / Susan Stanford Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Susan Stanford, author.

Series:

Modernist latitudes.

Modernist Latitudes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Civilization, Modern.

Postcolonialism.

Cosmopolitanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

PART I. RETHINKING MODERNIST STUDIES

1. Definitional Excursions

2. Planetarity

PART II. RETHINKING MODERNITY, SCALING SPACE AND TIME

3. Stories of Modernity: Planetary Scale in the Longue Durée

4. Figures of Modernity: Relational Keywords

PART III. RETHINKING MODERNISM, READING MODERNISMS

5. Modernity's Modernisms: Aesthetic Scale and Pre-1500 Modernisms

6. Circulating Modernisms: Collages of Empire in Fictions of the Long Twentieth Century

7. Diasporic Modernisms: Journeys "Home" in Long Poems of Aimé Césaire and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Conclusion. A Debate with Myself

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231539470

0231539479

OCLC:

916952151