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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McVicker, Jeanette

Titel

Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time

Ist Teil von

• Virginia Woolf Miscellany, 2016 (89), p.42

Ort / Verlag

New Haven: Southern Connecticut State University

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Planetary Modernisms brings together more than a decade's worth of provocative efforts by Susan Stanford Friedman to interrogate the temporal and spatial coordinates of modernism while simultaneously engaging the recent multiple 'turns' - ethical, transnational, global - in literary and cultural studies. Challenging readers to see Western history as part of a geohistory, drawing on and adapting Fernand Braudel's idea of the longue duree, Wai Chee Dimock's notion of reading through a lens of "deep time," and Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems methodology (see Works Cited), the book provides a sustained attack on periodization, one that has far-reaching implications not only for scholarship but the very institutional structures - libraries, museums, publishing houses, and the university itself - that sustain it. What they gain in being brought together between the covers of one book is the force of Friedman's expansive encounters with scholars across multiple disciplines - world historians, anthropologists, comparativists, economists, art historians, literary theorists, sociologists - over several years and as the humanities and modernist studies itself have undergone radical shifts in focus, scope and theoretical emphasis. In a review of the book forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Matthew Eatough agrees, calling her approach "a somewhat harsh critique of Jameson's work, in part because Jameson's notion of a 'singular modernity' imagines capitalism as a global system that is not restricted to Europe, but which instead first finds form in the very global trade networks that Friedman herself places so much emphasis on" (4-5).