Laura Doyle is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture won the Barbara and George Perkins Award from the Narrative Society. She is author of Liberty's Empire: Race and the Force of Freedom in Atlantic Modernity. Laura Winkiel is Assistant Professor of English at Iowa State University. She has published articles on Djuna Barnes, Elizabeth Robins, and Valerie Solanas. She is completing a book project on manifestos, modernism, and race.
Contents
Introduction: The Global Horizons of ModernismLaura Doyle and Laura Winkiel
I. Modernisms' Alternative Genealogies
1. The Future of an Allusion: The Color of ModernityAldon Lynn Nielsen
2. Africa and the Epiphany of ModernismSimon Gikandi
3. Liberty, Race, and Larsen in Atlantic Modernity: A New World
GenealogyLaura Doyle
4. The Geopolitics of Affect in the Poetry of Brazilian ModernismFernando
J. Rosenberg
5. Ongoing War and Arab HumanismKen Seigneurie
6. On the Ganges Side of Modernism: Raghubir Singh, Amitav Ghosh, and the
Postcolonial ModernAriela Freedman
II. Modernisms' Contested States
7. Twentieth-Century Chinese Modernism and Globalizing Modernity: Three
Auteur Directors of Taiwan New CinemaSung-sheng Yvonne Chang
8. Against "Library-Shelf Races": José Martí's Critique of Excessive
ImitationGerard Aching
9. Modernist (Pre)Occupations: Haiti, Primitivism, and Anticolonial
NationalismPatricia E. Chu
10. Gadze ModernismJanet Lyon
11. Cabaret Modernism: Vorticism and Racial SpectacleLaura Winkiel
III. Modernisms' Imagined Geographies
12. Township Modernism Ian Baucom
13. Paranoia, Pollution, and Sexuality: Affiliations between E. M.
Forster's A Passage to India and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small
ThingsSusan Stanford Friedman
14. Unreal City and Dream Deferred: Psychogeographies of Modernism in T. S.
Eliot and Langston HughesEluned Summers-Bremner
15. Modernism's Possible GeographiesJessica Berman
16. Modernism(s) Inside Out: History, Space, and Modern American Indian
Subjectivity in Cogewea: The Half-BloodJustine Dymond
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
