Table of Contents

List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: locating the modern, 1 Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world, 2 Russia and the invention of the modernist intelligentsia, 3 ‘Mad after foreign notions’: Ezra Pound, Imagism and the geography of the Orient, 4 Modernism, Africa and the myth of continents, 5 Spatial stories: Joseph Conrad and James Joyce, 6 The interior: Benjaminian arcades, Conradian passages, and the ‘impasse’ of Jean Rhys, 7 ‘A Savage from the Cannibal islands’: Jean Rhys and London, 8 Voyages by teashop: an urban geography of modernism, 9 The case of Marcel Duchamp: the artist as traveller and geographer, 10 ‘A sense, through the eyes, of embracing possession’ (Henry James): Bird’s-eye views of New York City, 1880s–1930s, 11 Memory, geography, identity: African writing and modernity, 12 ‘Architecture or revolution’? Le Corbusier and Wyndham Lewis, 13 Rem Koolhaas: from Manhattan to the city of exacerbated difference, 14 Flannery, References, Index

About the Author

Andrew Thacker, Peter Brooker

Reviews

'Geographies of Modernism makes a noteworthy effort to redraw the outlines of modernist studies … the contributors make a conscious effort to cover new ground… Huyssen, a veteran of the field, [and] the work of de Certeau and Benjamin feature prominently.. these well-known figures allow it to make productive contributions to our understanding of the phenomenology of modernism. Its contributors are also in close dialogue with current trends in postcolonial studies … attractive to scholars who want to supplement their theoretical toolkit… it seeks to rejuvenate the discourse of aesthetics in modernist studies while keeping the problem of cultural production clearly in view.' - Modernism/Modernity

'Geographies of Modernism makes a noteworthy effort to redraw the outlines of modernist studies… the contributors make a conscious effort to cover new ground… Huyssen, a veteran of the field, [and] the work of de Certeau and Benjamin feature prominently.. these well-known figures allow it to make productive contributions to our understanding of the phenomenology of modernism. Its contributors are also in close dialogue with current trends in postcolonial studies… attractive to scholars who want to supplement their theoretical toolkit… it seeks to rejuvenate the discourse of aesthetics in modernist studies while keeping the problem of cultural production clearly in view.' - Peter Kalliney, Modernism/Modernity