Other Modernisms in an Age of Globalisation

Edited by Djelal Kadir and Dorothea Löbbermann.

This volume contains 19 essays analyzing the discrepant formations and multiple temporalities emanating from the intersection between Modernism and Globalization. They are divided by the thematic fields: Definitons and Beginnings of Modernisms - Other Localities; Contacts through Time and Space; Textual Production and Reception - Narrative, Power, Fragmentation. - Both Modernism and Globalization are concepts that oscillate between homogenization and differentiation, each supplying totalizing platforms and sites of resistance. Cultural manifestations of difference and accomodation arise, producing their own specific temporalities in diverse practices of disparate modernisms. Where Modernism and Globalization meet, the antithetical impulses within each serve as an intensifying dynamic for cultural contestation and discursive formations. The essays collected in this volume aim at the discrepant formations and multiple temporalities that issue from this dynamic yielding emphatic alterities in modes of cultural and literary production and material culture. 294 Seiten, gebunden (American Studies. A Monograph Series; vol. 99/Universitätsverlag C. Winter 2002)