Modernism in a global context / Peter J. Kalliney.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 22, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. An aesthetics of motion: David Damrosch -- Franco Moretti -- Pascale Casanova -- Gayatri Spivak -- Paul Gilroy -- Space and temporality -- Translation -- Racial and ethnic difference -- Genre -- What follows -- Chapter 2. Imperialism: Landscapes of hierarchy and resistance -- Imperialism as domination -- Alternative cartographies -- Ambivalence and hybridity -- Metropolitan space -- Berlin modernism -- Olive Schreiner -- Joseph Conrad -- Elizabeth Bowen -- Karel Capek -- Bandung modernism -- Aimé Césaire -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- M.G. Vassanji -- Concluding summary -- Chapter 3. Cosmopolitanism: Cosmopolites and cosmo-skeptics -- Prescriptive cosmopolitanism -- Descriptive cosmopolitanism -- Nancy Cunard -- Nella Larsen -- Djuna Barnes -- Eileen Chang -- Concluding summary -- Note -- Chapter 4. Cultural institutions: Pierre Bourdieu and his interlocutors -- Little magazines -- Independent publishers -- Festivals and conferences -- Cultural awards -- Concluding summary -- Notes -- Chapter 5. Media: McLuhan, Kenner, and the mechanic media -- Writing by other means -- Media ethics and ecologies -- Bearing across -- Photography -- Phonography -- Cinema -- Radio -- Concluding summary -- Conclusion -- Modernities at large, or one world system?

Exploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the 'global turn' in contemporary Modernist Studies. Topics covered include: - Transnational exchanges between Western and non-Western literary cultures - Imperialism and the Modernism - Cosmopolitanism and postcolonial literatures - Global literary institutions - from the Little Magazine to the Nobel Prize - Mass media - photography, cinema, and radio broadcasting in the modernist age Exploring the work of writers such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie and critics such as Edward Said, Pascale Casanova, Paul Gilroy, and Gayatri Spivak amongst many others, the book also includes a comprehensive annotated guide to further reading and online resources.

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