Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time by Friedman, Susan Stanford

Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231170901)

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Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time by Friedman, Susan Stanford

Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time

$60.00
Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time by Friedman, Susan Stanford

Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time

$60.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 Aim C saire with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She reads postcolonial works from Sudan and India and engages with the idea of N gritude. 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.

Author: Susan Stanford Friedman
ISBN-10: 0231170904
ISBN-13: 9780231170901
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2015
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.50d

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Choice 03/01/2016
By Susan Stanford Friedman
By Susan Stanford Friedman
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Susan Stanford Friedman is the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies, the Hilldale Professor of the Humanities, and director for the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D.; Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity; H.D.'s Fiction; and Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter, which won the Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies. She has edited Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle and coedited Signets--Reading H.D.; Joyce: The Return of the Repressed; and Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses. Her work has been translated into Chinese, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbian, and Spanish.

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