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Planetary Modernisms : Provocations on Modernity Across Time.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modernist Latitudes SeriesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (466 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231539470
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Planetary ModernismsDDC classification:
  • 809.9112
LOC classification:
  • PN56.M54 F75 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of 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.
Summary: Drawing on a vast archive, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence.
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Intro -- Table of 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.

Drawing on a vast archive, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence.

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