Author: Christopher SchedlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113672057X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Border Modernism
Author: Christopher SchedlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113672057X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Border Modernism
Author: Christopher SchedlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136720642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Reorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representation termed border modernism that challenges the aesthetic hegemony of metropolitan (high) modernism. In this study, Schedler compares the works of European and Anglo-American modernists with the works of Mexican, Native American, and Chicano writers who engaged with modernist theories and practices. In the process he uncovers a unique intercultural aesthetic produced in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico aimed at modernizing the native literary traditions of the Americas. Addressing issues of migration, cultural identity, and ethnography, Border Modernism is a major contribution to current debates over the origins and development of American literary modernism and a new model for transnational and intercultural reconstructions of American literary history.
Experimenting on the Borders of Modernism
Author: Kristin BluemelPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820318728
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
As one of the first English novelists to employ "stream of consciousness" as a narrative technique, Dorothy Richardson ranks among modernism's most important experimentalists, yet her epic autobiographical novel Pilgrimage has rarely received the kind of attention given to the writings of her contemporaries James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. Kristin Bluemel's study explores the relationship between experimental forms and oppositional politics in Pilgrimage, demonstrating how the novel challenged the literary conventions and cultural expectations of the late-Victorian and Edwardian world and linking these relationships to the novel's construction of a lesbian sexuality, its use of medicine to interrogate class structures, its feminist critique of early-twentieth-century science, and Richardson's short stories and nonfiction.
Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism
Author: Leif SorensenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137570199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism in which ethnic literary modernists of the 1930s play a crucial role. Focusing on the remarkable careers of four ethnic fiction writers of the 1930s (Younghill Kang, D'Arcy McNickle, Zora Neale Hurston, and Américo Paredes) Sorensen presents a new view of the history of multicultural literature in the U.S. The first part of the book situates these authors within the modernist era to provide an alternative, multicultural vision of American modernism. The second part examines the complex reception histories of these authors' works, showing how they have been claimed or rejected as ancestors for contemporary multiethnic writing. Combining the approaches of the new modernist studies and ethnic studies, the book.
Modernism in Trieste
Author: Salvatore PappalardoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501369970
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and engaging perspective, arguing that the idea of European unity is also the product of a modern literary imagination. This book examines the idea of Europe in the modernist literature of primarily Robert Musil, Italo Svevo, and James Joyce (but also of Theodor Däubler and Srecko Kosovel), all authors who had a deep connection with the port city of Trieste. Writing after World War I, when the contested city joined Italy, these authors resisted the easy nostalgia of the postwar period, radically reimagining the origins of Europe in the Mediterranean culture of the Phoenicians, contrasting a 19th-century nationalist discourse that saw Europe as the heir of a Greek and Roman legacy. These writers saw the Adriatic city, a cosmopolitan bazaar under the Habsburg Empire, as a social laboratory of European integration. Modernism in Trieste seeks to fill a critical gap in the extant scholarship, securing the literary history of Trieste within the context of current research on Habsburg and Austrian literature.
Dance, Modernism, and Modernity
Author: Ramsay BurtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042985594X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity. Burt and Huxley examine dance examples from a period beginning just before the First World War and extending to the mid-1950s, ranging across not only mainland Europe and the United States but also Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific Asian region, and the UK. They consider a wide range of artists, including Akarova, Gertrude Colby, Isadora Duncan, Katherine Dunham, Margaret H’Doubler, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Kurt Jooss, Wassily Kandinsky, Margaret Morris, Berto Pasuka, Uday Shankar, Antony Tudor, and Mary Wigman. The authors explore dancers’ responses to modernity in various ways, including within the contexts of natural dancing and transnationalism. This collection asks questions about how, in these places and times, dancing developed and responded to the experience of living in modern times, or even came out of an ambivalence about or as a reaction against it. Ideal for students and practitioners of dance and those interested in new modernist studies, Dance, Modernism, and Modernity considers the development of modernism in dance as an interdisciplinary and global phenomenon.
Border Renaissance
Author: John Morán GonzálezPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292719787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican Americans created literary responses that critiqued these racialized representations while forging a new bilingual, bicultural community within the United States. The development of a modern Tejana identity, controversies surrounding bicultural nationalism, and other conflictual aspects of the transformation from mexicano to Mexican American are explored in this study. Capturing this fascinating aesthetic and political rebirth, Border Renaissance presents innovative readings of important novels by María Elena Zamora O'Shea, Américo Paredes, and Jovita González. In addition, the previously overlooked literary texts by members of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) are given their first detailed consideration in this compelling work of intellectual and literary history. Drawing on extensive archival research in the English and Spanish languages, John Morán González revisits the 1930s as a crucial decade for the vibrant Mexican American reclamation of Texas history. Border Renaissance pays tribute to this vital turning point in the Mexican American struggle for civil rights.
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement
Author: Jody CardinalPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498582915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism through an examination of a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers.
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan
Author: Li-Chun HsiaoPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498569102
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches characterizes Taiwan's postwar modernist literature as Cold War modernism par excellence that was born out of a constellation of Cold War circumstances, amounting to a perfect storm for its emergence.
Border Writing
Author: D. Emily HicksPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452901287
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Annotation. Examines Latin American literature from the perspective of attempts to break through national, genre, domain, and other borders in order to perceive, or create, a whole culture. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.