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Minority Literatures and Modernism

Author : William Calin,William C. Calin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802083654

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Minority Literatures and Modernism by William Calin,William C. Calin Pdf

Calin explores the 20th-century renaissance of literature in the minority languages of Scots, Breton, and Occitan, and demonstrates that all three literatures have evolved in a like manner, repudiating their romantic folk heritage.

Ethnic Modernism

Author : Werner Sollors
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0674030915

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Ethnic Modernism by Werner Sollors Pdf

Werner Sollors's monograph looks into how African American, European immigrant and other minority writers gave the United States its increasingly multicultural self-awareness, focusing on their use of the strategies opened up by modernism.

The Ethnic Avant-Garde

Author : Steven S. Lee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231540117

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The Ethnic Avant-Garde by Steven S. Lee Pdf

During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called "the magic pilgrimage" to the Soviet Union, these intellectuals placed themselves at the forefront of modernism, using radical cultural and political experiments to reimagine identity and decenter the West. Shining rare light on these efforts, The Ethnic Avant-Garde makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively on Russian archives, travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the parameters of an undervalued "ethnic avant-garde." These writers and artists cohered around distinct forms that mirrored Soviet techniques of montage, fragment, and interruption. They orbited interwar Moscow, where the international avant-garde converged with the Communist International. The book explores Vladimir Mayakovsky's 1925 visit to New York City via Cuba and Mexico, during which he wrote Russian-language poetry in an "Afro-Cuban" voice; Langston Hughes's translations of these poems while in Moscow, which he visited to assist on a Soviet film about African American life; a futurist play condemning Western imperialism in China, which became Broadway's first major production to feature a predominantly Asian American cast; and efforts to imagine the Bolshevik Revolution as Jewish messianic arrest, followed by the slow political disenchantment of the New York Intellectuals. Through an absorbing collage of cross-ethnic encounters that also include Herbert Biberman, Sergei Eisenstein, Paul Robeson, and Vladimir Tatlin, this work remaps global modernism along minority and Soviet-centered lines, further advancing the avant-garde project of seeing the world anew.

Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature

Author : S. Mohanty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230118348

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Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature by S. Mohanty Pdf

The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities

Race and the Modern Artist

Author : Heather Hathaway,Josef Jarab,Jeffrey Melnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195352627

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Race and the Modern Artist by Heather Hathaway,Josef Jarab,Jeffrey Melnick Pdf

Definitions of modernism have been debated throughout the twentieth century. But both during the height of the modernist era and since, little to no consideration has been given to the work of minority writers as part of this movement. Considering works by writers ranging from B.A. Botkin, T.S. Eliot, Waldo Frank, and Jean Toomer to Pedro Pietri and Allen Ginsberg, these essays examine the disputed relationships between modernity, modernism, and American cultural diversity. In so doing, the collection as a whole adds an important new dimension to our understanding of twentieth-century literature.

Modern Minority

Author : Yoon Sun Lee
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199915835

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Modern Minority by Yoon Sun Lee Pdf

Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with everyday life.

White Tie and Decorations

Author : Sir John Hope Simpson,Lady Quita Hope Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 0802007198

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White Tie and Decorations by Sir John Hope Simpson,Lady Quita Hope Simpson Pdf

Blending poetic language and scientific fact, Carolyn Lesser explores how one magnificent bear lives throughout the year. Impressionistic paintings follow the bear as he hunts, swims, plays, and journeys in the far north. “Lyrical in tone and accurate in zoological detail, the narrative is ideal for one-on-one sharing.”--School Library Journal

On the Margins of Modernism

Author : Chana Kronfeld
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520083479

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"A remarkable study. . . . The first book of its kind and essential for any future discussion of modernism and its embattled boundaries."—Françoise Meltzer, author of Hot Property "One of the very best books of literary criticism, literary scholarship, or literary theory I have ever read. . . . It illuminates interrelationships between historical studies and theory in any humanist discipline."—Menachim Brinker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "A milestone in the study of modern Jewish literature. It seriously engages and recontextualizes all the scholarship that came before, and by so doing sets it on a new course: applying a rigorous definition of modernism yet insistent upon methodological diversity; deeply grounded in Hebrew culture yet unabashedly diaspora-centered. This is not a book that readers will take lightly."—David G. Roskies, author of Against the Apocalypse

Strangers at Home

Author : Rita Keresztesi
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803227675

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Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this period poses a challenge to conventional notions of America and American modernism. By engaging with modernist literary studies from the perspectives of minority discourse, postcolonial studies, and postmodern theory, Rita Keresztesi questions the validity of modernism's claim to the neutrality of culture. She argues that literary modernism grew out of a prejudiced, racially biased, and often xenophobic historical context that necessitated a politically conservative and narrow definition of modernism in America. With the changing racial, ethnic, and cultural makeup of the nation during the interwar era, literary modernism also changed its form and content. ø Contesting traditional notions of literary modernism, Keresztesi examines American modernism from an ethnic perspective in the works of Harlem Renaissance, immigrant, and Native American writers. She discusses such authors as Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth, Josephina Niggli, Mourning Dove, D?Arcy McNickle, and John Joseph Mathews, among others. Strangers at Home makes a persuasive argument for expanding our understanding of the writers themselves as well as the concept of modernism as it is currently defined.

The Future of American Modernism

Author : William Q. Boelhower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019479776

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Locating Gender in Modernism

Author : Geetha Ramanathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136291272

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Locating Gender in Modernism by Geetha Ramanathan Pdf

This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-world authors have reshaped received notions of the modern and revised orthodox ideas on the modern aesthetic. Authors such as Bessie Head, Josiane Racine, T.Obinkaram Echewa, Raja Rao, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sembene Ousmane, Salman Rushdie, Ana Castillo, Attia Hossain, Bapsi Sidhwa, and Sahar Khalifeh, are visited in their specific cultural contexts and use some form of realism, a mode that western modernism relegates to the nineteenth century. A comparative methodology and extensive research on intersecting topics such as post-coloniality and the articulation between gender and modernist aesthetics facilitates readings of the modern in twentieth century literature that fall outside standards of western modernism. Considering the relationship between aesthetics and ideology, Ramanathan lays out a critical apparatus to enhance our understanding of the modern, thus suggesting that form is not universal, but that the history of forms, like the history of colonialism and of women, indicates very specific modalities of the modern.

Nations of Nothing But Poetry

Author : Matthew Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190452902

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Nations of Nothing But Poetry by Matthew Hart Pdf

Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic? How did modernist poets use vernacular language to re-imagine the relations between people, their languages, and the communities in which they live? Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers these questions through case studies of British, Caribbean, and American poetries from the 1920s through the 1990s. With a combination of fresh insights and attentive close readings, Matthew Hart presents a new theory of a "synthetic vernacular"-writing that explores the aesthetic and ideological tensions within modernism's dual commitments to the local and the global. The result is an invigorating contribution to the field of transnational modernist studies. Chapters focus on a mixture of canonical and non-canonical writers, combining new literary histories--such as the story of how Melvin B. Tolson, while a resident of Oklahoma, was appointed Poet Laureate of Liberia--with analyses of poems by Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. More broadly, the book reveals how the language of modernist poetry was shaped by the incompletely globalized nature of a world in which the nation-state continued to be a primary mediator of cultural and political identity, even as its authority was challenged as never before. Through deft juxtaposition, Hart develops a new interpretation of modernist poetry in English-one that disrupts the critical opposition between nationalism and the transnational, paving the way for a political history of modernist cosmopolitanism.

Global Modernists on Modernism

Author : Alys Moody,Stephen J. Ross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474242332

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Global Modernists on Modernism by Alys Moody,Stephen J. Ross Pdf

Winner of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Edited Volume Prize Bringing together works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, central Europe, the Muslim world, Asia, South America and Australia – many translated into English for the first time – this is the first collection of statements on modernism by writers, artists and practitioners from across the world. Annotated throughout, the texts are supported by critical essays from leading modernist scholars exploring major issues in the contemporary study of global modernism. Global Modernists on Modernism is an essential resource for students and scholars of modernism and world literature and one that opens up a dazzling new array of perspectives on the field.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism

Author : Joseph N. Cleary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107031418

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The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism by Joseph N. Cleary Pdf

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism

Author : Pericles Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521828093

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