A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism

Published by Columbia University Press 2016

A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism

Edited by: Eric Hayot and Rebecca Walkowitz

In the series Modernist Latitudes

https://doi.org/10.7312/hayo16520

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About this book

Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture.

Author / Editor information

Eric Hayot is professor of comparative literature and Asian studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Elements of Academic Style (Columbia, 2014), On Literary Worlds (2012), and The Hypothetical Mandarin (2009).

Rebecca L. Walkowitz is professor of English and affiliate faculty in the comparative literature program at Rutgers University. Her books are Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature (2015) and Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006), both published by Columbia University Press.

Reviews

Mark A. Wollaeger, Vanderbilt University:
The global turn in modernist studies constitutes not so much an expansion as an explosion. With received coordinates – geographic, temporal, national – obsolete, the field is unmappable. But if everything is modernism, nothing is. Enter A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism to articulate nodal points in a global network of modernism, making possible acts of provisional yet critical definition that serve not as gatekeepers but portals to a newer modernist studies.

Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University:
This brilliant collection of essays responds to perhaps the most urgent need in the scholarship on modernism—a guide and a set of terms that take us beyond the high modernist norm and induct readers into a world in which modern art and literature operated in a truly global public sphere. Written with clarity and intelligence, the book makes modernism appear new, again.

Susan Stanford Friedman, author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time:
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism is an exciting roadmap for 21st-century ways of reading the aesthetics of a world always already globalized. Its creative mixture of old and new modernist vocabularies—e.g., form; slum; alienation; puppets; war; libraries--suggests innovative ways of reading the global in the local, the cross-cuts of multidirectional mobilities, the perpetually indigenizing processes of all modernisms. Resisting diffusionist, regional, or additive approaches, the book shifts the paradigm for reading globally. A must read in the field!

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
1. Introduction Eric Hayot and Rebecca L. Walkowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Alienation Christopher Reed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3. Animal Efthymia Rentzou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
4. Antiquity David Damrosch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
5. Classic Tsitsi Jaji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
6. Context Christopher Bush Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
7. Copy Jacob Edmond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
8. Form Jahan Ramazani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
9. Libraries B. Venkat Mani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
10. Obsolescence Mark Goble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
11. Pantomime Monica L. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
12. Puppets Martin Puchner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
13. Slum David L. Pike Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
14. Style Judith Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
15. Tradition Rachel Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
16. Translation Gayle Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
17. War Mariano Siskind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Appendix: More Vocabulary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 23 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9780231543064