Modernist Commitments
Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2015
384 pages
978-0-231-52039-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Jessica Berman is associate professor and chair of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author of Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community and the coeditor, with Jane Goldman, of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds. She is also the co-editor, with Paul Saint-Amour, of the series Modernist Latitudes.
Content
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
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
