Modernist commitments : ethics, politics, and transnational modernism
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Modernist commitments : ethics, politics, and transnational modernism
（Modernist latitudes）
Columbia University Press, c2011
- : pbk
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-351) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagining Justice Part 1 1. Intimate and Global: Ethical Domains from Woolf to Rhys 2. Comparative Colonialisms: Joyce Part 2 3. Modernism in the Zenana: The Domestic Spaces of Sorabji 4. Commitment and the Scene of War: Max Aub and Spanish Civil War Writing 5. Arising from the Cornlands: The Working-Class Voices of Conroy and Le Sueur Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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