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Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence, elevating the agencies and creative capacities of all cultures not only in the past and present but also in the century to come.
Drawing on a vast archive, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence.
Bruce Robbins:Friedman has added immeasurably to our stock of images by which modernity can be recognized and to the series of locations where it might be found.
Rebecca L. Walkowitz:[An] important new book.
Laura Winkiel:A thought experiment that invigorates the field of modernist studies by altering its scales of time and place.
Christopher Bush:[Planetary Modernisms] brings together more than a decade of influential polemics and provocations.... Their collective arrival in book form provides a valuable occasion to revisit, reflect, and reassess.
This book is bound to spark intellectual discussion for years to come.
Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics:This is one of the most exciting and consequential books of modernist scholarship in recent decades. Susan Stanford Friedman boldly crosses the boundaries between world-historical and literary scholarship, between criticism on twentieth-century and pre-1500 literature, between feminist and global scholarship, and between postcolonial and modernist studies. Passionate, provocative, and energetically argued, Planetary Modernisms will generate animated debate and fresh scholarship.
Rita Felski, University of Virginia, editor of New Literary History:In this bold and brilliant book, Susan Stanford Friedman calls for a radical rethinking of the spatial and historical parameters of modernism. Learned and expansive, generous and generative, formally inventive and extraordinarily exhilarating to read, Planetary Modernisms will set intellectual agendas for years to come.
Andrew Thacker, Nottingham Trent University, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms:A brave, challenging, and incredibly stimulating account of where modernist studies might go next. This book should be read and debated widely. In many ways it turns the 'new' of modernism into the 'now.' A book that emphatically, and in the very best possible way, provokes.
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