...Salah M. Hassan © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Salah M. Hassan African Modernism: Beyond Alternative Modernities Discourse African...

...Elizabeth Harney This essay looks at the career of pioneering Senegalese painter Iba N'Diaye and his relation to now well-established narratives of modernism in Senegal. Typical accounts of the mid-twentieth century equate the modern with the cultural patronage, Négritude writings, and state...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu This essay focuses on the work of the Art Society—a group formed by art students at the Nigerian College of Art, Science, and Technology, Zaria (1957–61)—and suggests that the work of its key members in the 1960s was the first significant manifestation of postcolonial modernism...

...Iftikhar Dadi Ibrahim El Salahi's art, situated between Islamic textuality, African plastic forms, and transnational modernism, is distinctive in developing an aesthetic of decolonization for the Sudan and much of Africa. However, it can be usefully compared with other modernist artists from...

...Jo Brantley Berryman Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Mauberley, Logopoeia, and the Language of Modernism Jo Brantley Berryman In a letter to Felix Schelling in 1922 Pound described his work in progress: The first 11 Cantos are preparation of the palette. I have to get down all...

...Michael W. Messmer Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Looking Behind Modernism Michael W. Messmer Postmodernism is old hat; or at least, postmodernism, postmodern, and other such currently modish terms in the vocabulary of cultural criticism are. It has been over three decades now...

...Geeta Kapur Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Geeta Kapur When Was Modernism in Indian/Third World Art? . . . [T]he innovations of what is called Modern­ ism have become the new but fixed forms of our present moment. If we have to break out of the non-historical fixity of post...

...Frank Lentricchia Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Frank Lentricchia Philosophers of Modernism at Harvard, circa 1900 When George Santayana was appointed to the philosophy department at Harvard in 1889, just a year after finishing his doctor­ ate there, he became the junior...

...Edward Engelberg Dionysus and the City: Modernism in Twentieth-Century Poetry . By Spears Monroe K. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1970 . Pp. ix , 278 . $7.50 Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Book Reviews 609 Dionysus and the City: Modernism...

...J. Gordon Eaker Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 EMERGENT MODERNISM IN LATE VICTORIAN FICTION J. GORDON EAKER IT IS EASY to say that skepticism is modern and faith old fash­ ioned, so ready is every age to question the beliefs of that pre­ ceding. Many a bridge between the age...

...Tamara Levitz 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Tamara Levitz Syvilla Fort’s Africanist Modernism and John Cage’s Gestic Music: The Story of Bacchanale John Cage delighted in telling witty accounts of his life, engaging audiences...

...Trevor Richard Reese The Southwest Pacific to 1900: A Modern History . By Grattan C. Hartley . ( The University of Michigan History of the Modern World .) Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1963 . Pp. xiv , 558 . $7.50 . The Southwest Pacific Since 1900: A Modern...

...Suna Ertuğrul 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Suna Ertug˘rul Belated Modernity and Modernity As Belatedness in Tutunamayanlar This essay explores the possibilities of a reading of belated modernity in Oğuz Atay’s The Dis...

...Andrew McNamara 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Andrew McNamara Apprehension? Performativity and Medium-Specificity in Modern Art For all the talk about feeling, pleasure, and beauty, the aesthetic remains at its root a propo...

...Catherine Liu 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Catherine Liu Getting to the Photo Finish: Photography, Autobiography, Modernity It is difficult not to ignore photography’s subtle hegemony and its effects on the very notion...

...Saurabh Dube 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Saurabh Dube Introduction: Enchantments of Modernity The idea of modernity rests on rupture...

...Walter D. Mignolo 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Walter D. Mignolo The Enduring Enchantment: (Or the Epistemic Privilege of Modernity and Where to Go from Here) Saurabh Dube’s invitation to participate in this collection called...

...Nada M. Shabout This essay explores the articulation of the Arabic letter and text in the modern art of North Africa as a liminal space of interaction. Arabic text in particular offered artists a space of intersection between the various layers of identities of North Africa (al Maghrib al-Arabi...

...Avinoam Shalem From a sociocultural point of view, the term modern and its implications have formed, shaped, and even dictated the collective identity of the twentieth century. Therefore, questions relating to the birth of this term, its assessment, its manipulative methods, and especially its...

...Okwui Enwezor There is a dual narrative that is often taken to be characteristic of modernity: the first is the idea of its unique Europeanness, and the second is its translatability into non-European cultures. This narrative argues for the mutability of modernity, thus permitting its export...