Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms [Hardcover]

This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters and individual case studies to examine the cultural and aesthetic complexities of so-called peripheral modernisms. Contributing to research on the transnational turn in New Modernist Studies, the volume takes recent scholarship on postcolonial modernisms one step further by exploring a broader geopolitical expanse than the (formerly) colonised regions under global capitalism. It highlights the local and translocal specificities of modernist movements from regions such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Mediterranean to offer new insights into the concept of global modernism.Introduction.- Part 1. Modernism and Peripherality: Theoretical Considerations.-1.1.Benita Parry  Stylistic Irrealism in Peripheral Literatures as Symptom, Mediation and Critique of Modernity.-1.2.Irene Ramalho Santos  What is Peripheral about Peripheral Modernisms?.- Part 2. Liminality in the Semi-peripheries.- 2.1. Katia Pizzi  Trieste and the Untranslatable Modernism.- 2.2. Roberta Gefter  From the Periphery of the Metropolis: on Joyces Modern Irish Peripherealities.- 2.3. Marilena Parlati  Australian Modernisms Strike Back, or still Harping on Margins.- Part 3. Metropolis, Technology, Cultural Transfer.- 3.1. Andreas Kramer  Geographies of Peripheral Modernism: The Case of the Russian Avant-Garde (Khlebnikov, Eisenstein, Tretiakov).- 3.2. Patricia Silva  Transcultural Reception in the Postcolonial Periphery: Brazilian Modernism and the European Avant-Garde.- 3.3. Ali Mozaffari & Nigel Westbrook  In Search of the Authentic Modern: The Rhetoric of Architecture in Late 20th Century Iran.