ABSTRACT
The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. The 61 new essays address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music, film, and intellectual currents. The book also examines modernist histories and practices around the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Arab World, as well as the United States and Canada. A detailed introduction provides an overview of the scholarly terrain, and highlights different themes and concerns that emerge in the volume.
The Modernist World is essential reading for those new to the subject as well as more advanced scholars in the area – offering clear introductions alongside new and refreshing insights.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|74 pages
East and Southeast Asia
chapter Chapter Two|8 pages
Building Forwards and Backwards in Time
chapter Chapter Eight|11 pages
When was East and Southeast Asia's Modernism in Art?
part II|64 pages
South Asia
chapter Chapter Nine|9 pages
Tousled Temporalities
part III|72 pages
Sub-Saharan Africa
chapter Chapter Sixteen|9 pages
Modernization, Development Studies and Modernity in Current African Debates
chapter Chapter Seventeen|10 pages
From ‘Progress' to Post-Colonial Relics
chapter Chapter Twenty-Two|8 pages
‘A Range of Modernisms'
chapter Chapter Twenty-Three|11 pages
Modernism in Africanist Art History
part IV|74 pages
Australia and Oceania
chapter Chapter Twenty-Four|8 pages
The Experience of Aboriginality in the Creation of the Radically New
chapter Chapter Twenty-Five|10 pages
Indigenous Conciliations with American Modernity
chapter Chapter Twenty-Six|10 pages
Modernism and Film in Australia and the Pacific
chapter Chapter Twenty-Eight|8 pages
Defining Nations
chapter Chapter Thirty|9 pages
Staging Modernity in the ‘New Oceania’
chapter Chapter Thirty-One|8 pages
The Modern Primitive and the Antipodes
part V|74 pages
Europe
chapter Chapter Thirty-Two|10 pages
‘A Rare Moment of Crisis’
chapter Chapter Thirty-Four|8 pages
Envisioning the Scene of the Modern
chapter Chapter Thirty-Nine|8 pages
Modernist Painting in and Around Paris
part VI|64 pages
Latin America
chapter Chapter Forty-One|9 pages
Architectural Latin American Modernism
chapter Chapter Forty-Two|9 pages
Racialized Dance Modernisms in Lusophone and Spanish-Speaking Latin America
chapter Chapter Forty-Four|8 pages
Renovation, Rupture, and Restoration
part VII|62 pages
Middle East and the Arab World
chapter Chapter Forty-Seven|8 pages
Accommodating an Unexpected Guest
chapter Chapter Forty-Eight|8 pages
Cinema and Modernity in the Middle East
chapter Chapter Fifty|8 pages
The Crisis of the Present
chapter Chapter Fifty-Three|11 pages
Modernism and the Visual Arts in the Middle East and North Africa
part VIII|73 pages
Canada and the United States
