The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria. Together, these essays offer the most comprehensive worldwide examination of modernist studies available. Topics covered include: Richard Wright and photographic modernism; poetry of the Caribbean; Chinese modernism and Lu Xun's Ah Q-The Real Story; Ben Okri and magical realism; aesthetic autonomy in Paris, Italy, Russia; Cuba's avant-gardes; geography of Hebrew and Yiddish modernism in Europe; Japanese modernism in works by Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi; and South African cinema.
Introduction 3 ; Mark Wollaeger ; Part I : Opening Places, Opening Methods ; 1. Th e Balkans Uncovered: Towards Historie Croisee of Modernism 25 ; Sanja Bahun ; 2 . Caribbean Modernism: Plantation to Planetary 48 ; Mary Lou Emery ; Part II : Temporality ; 3. Berber Poetry and the Issue of Derivation: Alternate Symbolist ; Trajectories 81 ; Edwige Tamalet Talbayev ; 4. The Temporalities of Modernity in Spanish American M odernismo : ; Dario's Bourgeois King 109 ; Gerard Aching ; 5. Nation Time: Richard Wright, Black Power , and Photographic ; Modernism 129 ; Sara Blair ; 6. Chinese Modernism, Mimetic Desire, and European Time 149 ; Eric Hayot ; Part III : Whose Modernism? ; 7. The Will to Allegory and the Origin of Chinese Modernism: ; Rereading Lu Xun's Ah Q-Th e Real Story 173 ; Xudong Zhang ; 8. Neither Mirror nor Mimic: Transnational Reading and Indian ; Narratives in English 205 ; Jessica Berman ; 9. Modernism and African Literature 228 ; Neil Lazarus ; Part IV : Forms and Modes ; 10. <" Petro-Magic Realism>": Ben Okri's Infl ationary Modernism 249 ; Sarah L. Lincoln ; 11. Little Magazines, World Form 267 ; Eric Bulson ; 12. Poetry, Modernity, Globalization 288 ; Jahan Ramazani ; Part V : Comparative Avant-Gardes ; 13. Futurist Geographies: Uneven Modernities and the Struggle for ; Aesthetic Autonomy: Paris, Italy, Russia, 1909-1914 313 ; Harsha Ram ; 14. Modernity's Labors in Latin America: Th e Cultural Work of Cuba's ; Avant-Gardes ; Vicky Unruh ; 15. Queer Internationalism and Modern Vietnamese Aesthetics 367 ; Ben Tran ; Part VI : Forms of Sociality ; 16. Cosmopolitanism and Modernism 387 ; Janet Lyon ; 17. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual 413 ; Peter Kalliney ; 18. The Urban Literary Cafe and the Geography of Hebrew and Yiddish ; Modernism in Europe 433 ; Shachar Pinsker ; Part VII : Locating the Transnational ; 19. Th e Circulation of Interwar Anglophone and Hispanic ; Modernisms 461 ; Gayle Rogers ; 20. Scandinavian Modernism: Stories of the Transnational ; and the Discontinuous 478 ; Anna Westerstahl Stenport ; 21. World Modernisms, World Literature, and Comparativity 499 ; Susan Stanford Friedman ; Part VIII : Translation Zones: Culture, Language, Media ; 22. Modernism Disfi gured: Turkish Literature and the <"Other West>" 529 ; Nergis Erturk ; 23. M odernism's Translations 551 ; Rebecca Beasley ; 24. Japanese Modernism and "Cine-Text": Fragments and Flows at ; Empire's Edge in Kitagawa Fuyuhiko and Yokomitsu Riichi 571 ; William O. Gardner ; Part IX : Film as Vernacular Modernism ; 25. T racking Cinema on a Global Scale 601 ; Miriam Bratu Hansen ; 26. V isions of Modernity in Colonial India: Cinema, ; Women, and the City 627 ; Manishita Dass ; 27. Vernacular Modernism and South African Cinema: Capitalism, ; Crime, and Styles of Desire 646 ; Rosalind C. Morris ; Part X : Afterword ; 28. Modernist Studies and Inter-Imperiality in the Longue Duree 669 ; Laura Doyle ; Notes on Contributors 697 ; Index
