The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (Oxford Handbooks) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195338901 ISBN 13: 9780195338904

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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 present a fresh examination of modernist works from around the world. 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Wollaeger is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism (1990) and Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 (2006), as well as editor of two collections of essays on Joyce.

Matt Eatough is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Vanderbilt University.

Review:

"A truly remarkable collection of interdisciplinary, scholarly essays...This is manifestly skillful scholarship, and the book will be invaluable to those with an abiding professional interest in modernism, broadly defined...Highly recommended." --Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0195338901
• ISBN 13: 9780195338904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 750
• Editor: Wollaeger Mark