The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. The 61 new essays address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music, film, and intellectual currents. The book also examines modernist histories and practices around the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Arab World, as well as the United States and Canada. A detailed introduction provides an overview of the scholarly terrain, and highlights different themes and concerns that emerge in the volume.
The Modernist World is essential reading for those new to the subject as well as more advanced scholars in the area offering clear introductions alongside new and refreshing insights.
Introduction, Stephen Ross and Allana C. Lindgren Part 1 East and
Southeast Asia
1. Contexts for Modernism: Intellectual Currents in East and
Southeast Asia, Christopher Bush
2. Building Backward and Forwards in Time:
Architectural Modernism in East and Southeast Asia, Peter G. Rowe
3.
Modernism and Cinema in East Asia, Jenny Kwok Wah Lau
4. Modern Dance in
East and Southeast Asia, Jukka O. Miettinen
5. Modernist Literary Production
in East Asia, Karen Thornber
6. Musical Modernism in Asia, Frederick Lau
7.
Modern and Modernist Theatre and Drama in East and Southeast Asia, Kevin J.
Wetmore, Jr.
8. When was East and Southeast Asias Modernism in Art?:
Comparisons and Intersections, Simon Soon Part 2 South Asia
9. Tousled
Temporalities: Modernist Practices and Intellectual--Political Currents in
South Asia, Saurabh Dube
10. Beyond the Masters: Modernism in South Asian
Architecture, Kathleen James-Chakraborty
11. Modernism and Film in South
Asia: An Indian Perspective, Rahul Sapra
12. Dance in South Asia, Ketu H.
Katrak
13. Modernism and Its Four Phases: Literature in South Asia, Vinay
Dharwadker
14. Modernism in South Asian Art Music, Stanley Scott
15. Visual
Arts in South Asia, Parul Dave-Mukherji, Simone Wille, AKM Khademul Haque and
T. Sanathanan Part 3 Sub-Saharan Africa
16. Modernization, Development
Studies and Modernity in Current African Debates, Yahia Mahmoud
17. From
Progress to Post-colonial Relics: Modernist Architecture and Design in
Africa, William Cunningham Bissell
18. Defining Afro-Modernism: African
Cinemas Response to Modernity, Lizelle Bisschoff
19. Modernism and African
Dance: Reinventing Traditions, Kariamu Welsh
20. Modernism in Sub-Saharan
African Literature, Nicholas Meihuizen
21. Music and Modernism in Africa,
Tsitsi Jaji
22. A Range of Modernisms: Sub-Saharan African Theatre and the
Modernist World, Chukwuma Okoye
23. Modernism in Africanist Art History: The
Making of a New Discipline, Prita Meier Part 4 Australia and Oceania
24.
The Experience of Aboriginality in the Creation of the Radically New:
Modernist Intellectual Currents in Australasia, David Macarthur
25.
Indigenous Conciliations with American Modernity: Architecture and Design in
Oceania, Davina Jackson
26. Modernism and Film in Australia and the Pacific:
The Australasian Experience, Anthony Lambert
27. Imported and Homegrown:
Dancing Modernists in Oceania, Amanda Card
28. Defining Nations: Modernist
Literature in Australia and the Pacific Islands, Matthew Hall
29. Australian
Musical first Modernism, Graeme Skinner
30. Staging Modernity in the New
Oceania: Modernism in Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands Theatre,
David ODonnell
31. The Modern Primitive and the Antipodes: The Visual Arts
and Oceania, Ann Stephen and Andrew McNamara Part 5 Europe
32. A Rare
Moment of Crisis: Modernist Intellectual Currents in Europe, Irene Gammel
and Cathy Waszczuk
33. Architecture and Design Europe, Michael Johnson
34. Envisioning the Scene of the Modern: Modernism and European Cinema,
Michael Valdez Moses
35. Inventing Abstraction? Modernist Dance in Europe,
Juliet Bellow and Nell Andrew
36. Literature in Europe, Vassiliki
Kolocotroni
37. Modernism in European Music, Stephen Downes
38. Modernism
and European Drama/Theatre, Claire Warden
39. Modernist Painting in and
around Paris: The City as Site, Subject, and Structure, 1880-1939, Ara H.
Merjian Part 6 Latin America
40. Modernist Intellectual Currents in Latin
America, Amy Oliver
41. Architectural Latin American Modernism:
Twentieth-Century Politics, Historiography and the Academic Debate, Félipe
Hernįndez
42. Dancing Racialized Modernisms in Lusophone and
Spanish-Speaking Latin America, Jose Luis Reynoso
43. Latin Americas
Multiple Literary Modernisms, Emily McGinn
44. Renovation, Rupture, and
Restoration: The Modernist Musical Experience in Latin America, Alejandro L.
Madrid
45. Modernisms Unfinished Stage: Theatre in Latin America, Sarah J.
Townsend
46. Beyond Centre-Periphery: Modernism in Latin American Art,
Tatiana Flores Part 7 Middle East and the Arab World
47. Accommodating an
Unexpected Guest: The Intellectual Trends of Modernity in the Middle East,
Kaveh Tagharobi and Ali Zarei
48. Cinema and Modernity in the Middle East:
Post-colonial Newness and Realism, Walid El Khachab
49. Modernism and Dance
in the Middle East and North Africa, Stavros Stavrou Karayanni
50. The
Crisis of the Present: Literature in the Middle East and North Africa, Anna
Bernard
51. Modernization and Westernization in Eastern Music, Amnon Shiloah
52. Arab Theatre between Tradition and Modernity, Dina Amin
53. Modernism
and the Visual Arts in the Middle East and North Africa, Nada Shabout Part 8
The United States and Canada
54. Modernist Intellectual Currents in Canada
and the United States, Leif Sorensen
55. Modernist Architecture and Design
in Canada and the USA, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
56. Cinema Modernisms in
Canada and the US, Juan A Suįrez
57. Embodied Modernism: Dance in Canada and
the United States, Allana C. Lindgren
58. Modernist Literature in Canada and
the USA, Gregory Betts
59. Modernism and Music in Canada and the USA, David
Cecchetto and Jeremy Strachan
60. Theatrical Modernism: Canada and the
United States, Alan Filewod
61. Modernism in the Visual Arts in the United
States and Canada, Diana Nemiroff
Stephen Ross is Associate Professor in the English department at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has published widely on Modernism and is General Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
Allana Lindgren is Associate Professor in the Theatre department at the University of Victoria, Canada. She has published widely on Modernism, Theatre History and Dance.