Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time

Rita Felski, University of Virginia, Editor New Literary History:In this bold and brilliant book, Susan Stanford Friedman calls for a radical rethinking of the spatial and historical parameters of modernism. Learned and expansive, generous and generative, formally inventive and extraordinarily exhil...

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Main Author: Friedman, Susan Stanford 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press [2015]
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Summary:Rita Felski, University of Virginia, Editor New Literary History:In this bold and brilliant book, Susan Stanford Friedman calls for a radical rethinking of the spatial and historical parameters of modernism. Learned and expansive, generous and generative, formally inventive and extraordinarily exhilarating to read, Planetary Modernisms will set intellectual agendas for years to come. Andrew Thacker, Nottingham Trent University:A brave, challenging, and incredibly stimulating account of where modernist studies might go next - it should be read and debated widely. In many ways it turns the 'new' of modernism into the 'now'. This is a book that emphatically, and in the very best possible way, provokes!
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 dominant 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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed July 31 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (496 pages) 45 illustrations
ISBN:9780231539470

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