Modernist Commitments : : Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism / / Jessica Berman.
Jessica Berman demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to the active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges divisions between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Modernist Latitudes
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 13 illus. |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Imagining Justice -- Part I -- 1. Intimate and Global -- 2. Comparative Colonialisms -- Part II -- 3. Modernism in the Zenana -- 4. Commitment and the Scene of War -- 5. Arising from the Cornlands -- Afterword -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | Jessica Berman demonstrates how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to the active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges divisions between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagement undergirds modernisms worldwide and that it is strengthened rather than hindered by formal experimentation. In addition to making the case for a transnational model of modernism, Berman shows how modernism's play with formal matters, its challenge to the boundaries between fact and fiction, its incorporation of vernacular and folkways, and its engagement with embodied experience and intimacy offer not only an expanded account of modernist texts and commitments but a new way of thinking about what modernism is and can do. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231520393 9783110442472 |
DOI: | 10.7312/berm14950 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jessica Berman. |