ABSTRACT
Identities and subjectivities are usually held to be something separate from material economic phenomena and thus the two are not usually studied together. But economic status is clearly a crucial factor informing identities. And subjectivities are part of the symbolic baggage people bring to their economic choices. Modernism is a theoretical field most often associated with literary and aesthetic studies, yet here I propose to consider it as a feature of economic development. The purpose of this chapter is to explain how to bring these apparently disparate ideas together as a methodology for analyzing Solomon Taiyo.
