The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms

Edited by Mark Wollaeger and With Matt Eatough

OUP USA Oxford Handbooks of Literature

736 pages | 18 illustrations | 171x248mm

978-0-19-533890-4 | Hardback | 31 May 2012

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Edited by Mark Wollaeger, Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, and With Matt Eatough

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 (2006), as well as editor of two collections of essays on Joyce. Matt Eatough is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Vanderbilt University.

Contributors:
Notes on Contributors

Gerard Aching is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design (1997), Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean (2003).

Rebecca Beasley is University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow of The Queen's College. She is author of Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism (2007), and Theorists of Modernist Poetry: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and T.E. Hulme (2007), and editor, with Philip Ross Bullock, of the essay collection Russia in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Jessica Berman is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001) and Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism (2011).

Sara Blair is Professor of English and faculty associate of the American Culture and Judaic Studies programs at the University of Michigan. She is author of Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers in the Twentieth Century (2007), Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (1996), co-author with Eric Rosenberg of Documentary Reconsidered (forthcoming), and co-editor with Jonathan Freedman of Jewish in America (2004).

Eric Bulson is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce (2006) and Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850-2000 (2007).

Manishita Dass is Lecturer in World Cinema at Royal Holloway (University of London) and has previously taught at the University of Michigan and Swarthmore College.

Laura Doyle is Professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Amherst and convener of the Five College Atlantic/Global Studies Faculty Seminar. She is author of Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 (2008) and Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (1994), as well as editor of Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture (2001) and co-editor of Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (2004).

Mary Lou Emery is Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where she teaches modernist and Caribbean studies. She is author of Jean Rhys at "World's End": Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile (1990), Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature (2007)

Nergis Ertürk is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (2011).

Susan Stanford Friedman teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and publishes widely in modernist studies, narrative studies, and feminist theory. She received the Wayne C. Booth Award for Lifetime Achievement in Narrative Studies (2010) and serves as President of the Modernist Studies Association in 2011-12. Three essays in Modernism/modernity (2001; 2006; 2010) focus on multiple meanings of modernism/modernity, expansive periodizations, and a planetary framework for modernism. She co-edits the Oxford University Press journal Contemporary Women's Writing.

William O. Gardner is Associate Professor of Japanese at Swarthmore College. He is author of Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920's (2006).

Miriam Bratu Hansen (1949-2011) was Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she also taught in the Department of English and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies. Her publications include a book on Ezra Pound's early poetics (1979), Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film (1991), and Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno.

Eric Hayot is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel quel (2004) and The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (2010).

Peter Kalliney is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where he teaches modern British and postcolonial literature. He is author of Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness (2007).

Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is author of Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990), Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (1999), and The Postcolonial Unconscious (2011), and editor of Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (2002).

Sarah Lincoln is Assistant Professor of English at Portland State University, where she teaches postcolonial and other world literatures, along with global cinema and critical theory.

Janet Lyon is Associate Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern (1999) and numerous articles on modernism and modernity.

Rosalind Morris is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Photographies East: The Camera and its Histories in East and Southeast Asia and Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea.

Shachar Pinsker is Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature and Culture at the University of Michigan. He is author of Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe (2010), and co-editor of Hebrew, Gender, and Modernity (2007).

Harsha Ram is Associate Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (2003).

Gayle Rogers is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and is also affiliated with the European Studies Center and the Center for Latin American Studies. He is currently completing a book project, Modernism and the New Spain: Literary History, Cosmopolitanism, and Cultural Politics, 1922-39.

Anna Westerståhl Stenport is Assistant Professor and Director of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an affiliate Associate Professor of Literature at Gothenburg University, Sweden. She is author of Locating August Strindberg's Prose: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting (2010).

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev is Assistant Professor of French and an affiliate of the Council on Middle Eastern Studies and the African Studies Council at the MacMillan Center at Yale University.

Ben Tran is an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is completing a book manuscript entitled Post-Mandarin: Modern Vietnamese Literature, 1932-1945.

Vicky Unruh, Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Kansas, is author of Latin American Vanguards: The Art of Contentious Encounters (1994) and Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America (2006), and co-editor (with Michael Lazzara) of Telling Ruins in Latin America (2009).

Mark Wollaeger is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism (1990) and Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 (2006), as well as editor of two collections of essays on Joyce. He served as President of the Modernist Studies Association and is founding co-editor, with Kevin J. H. Dettmar, of Modernist Literature & Culture, an Oxford University Press book series.

Xudong Zhang is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese at New York University. He is author of Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms (1997) and Postsocialism and Cultural Politics (2008), and editor of two collections of essays on contemporary Chinese culture and intellectual discourse. As a literary and cultural critic, he also publishes widely in Chinese and is founding director of the International Center for Critical Theory at Peking University.

Introduction 3
Mark Wollaeger
Part I : Opening Places, Opening Methods
1. Th e Balkans Uncovered: Towards Historie Croisée of Modernism 25
Sanja Bahun
2 . Caribbean Modernism: Plantation to Planetary 48
Mary Lou Emery
Part II : Temporality
3. Berber Poetry and the Issue of Derivation: Alternate Symbolist
Trajectories 81
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
4. The Temporalities of Modernity in Spanish American M odernismo :
Darío>'s Bourgeois King 109
Gerard Aching
5. Nation Time: Richard Wright, Black Power , and Photographic
Modernism 129
Sara Blair
6. Chinese Modernism, Mimetic Desire, and European Time 149
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 173
Xudong Zhang
8. Neither Mirror nor Mimic: Transnational Reading and Indian
Narratives in English 205
Jessica Berman
9. Modernism and African Literature 228
Neil Lazarus
Part IV : Forms and Modes
10. <" Petro-Magic Realism>": Ben Okri>'s Infl ationary Modernism 249
Sarah L. Lincoln
11. Little Magazines, World Form 267
Eric Bulson
12. Poetry, Modernity, Globalization 288
Jahan Ramazani
Part V : Comparative Avant-Gardes
13. Futurist Geographies: Uneven Modernities and the Struggle for
Aesthetic Autonomy: Paris, Italy, Russia, 1909-1914 313
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 367
Ben Tran
Part VI : Forms of Sociality
16. Cosmopolitanism and Modernism 387
Janet Lyon
17. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual 413
Peter Kalliney
18. The Urban Literary Café and the Geography of Hebrew and Yiddish
Modernism in Europe 433
Shachar Pinsker
Part VII : Locating the Transnational
19. Th e Circulation of Interwar Anglophone and Hispanic
Modernisms 461
Gayle Rogers
20. Scandinavian Modernism: Stories of the Transnational
and the Discontinuous 478
Anna Westerståhl Stenport
21. World Modernisms, World Literature, and Comparativity 499
Susan Stanford Friedman
Part VIII : Translation Zones: Culture, Language, Media
22. Modernism Disfi gured: Turkish Literature and the <"Other West>" 529
Nergis Ertürk
23. M odernism's Translations 551
Rebecca Beasley
24. Japanese Modernism and "Cine-Text": Fragments and Flows at
Empire's Edge in Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi 571
William O. Gardner
Part IX : Film as Vernacular Modernism
25. T racking Cinema on a Global Scale 601
Miriam Bratu Hansen
26. V isions of Modernity in Colonial India: Cinema,
Women, and the City 627
Manishita Dass
27. Vernacular Modernism and South African Cinema: Capitalism,
Crime, and Styles of Desire 646
Rosalind C. Morris
Part X : Afterword
28. Modernist Studies and Inter-Imperiality in the Longue Durée 669
Laura Doyle
Notes on Contributors 697
Index

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