Planetary modernisms : provocations on modernity across time /

Planetary modernisms : provocations on modernity across time /

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Author / Creator:	Friedman, Susan Stanford, author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (451 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Modernist Latitudes Modernist latitudes.
Subject:	Modernism (Literature) Modernism (Aesthetics) Civilization, Modern. Cosmopolitanism. Postcolonialism. Civilization, Modern. Cosmopolitanism. Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Literature) Postcolonialism. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11247311

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ISBN:	9780231539470 0231539479 9780231170901 0231170904
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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 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.--Publisher website.
Other form:	Print version: Friedman, Susan Stanford. Planetary modernisms. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] 9780231170901
Standard no.:	ebc2121581

Table of Contents:

1. Definitional excursions
2. Planetarity
3. Stories of modernity : planetary scale in the Longue Duree
4. Figures of modernity : relational keywords
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 Aime Cesaire and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Conclusion : a debate with myself.