...Rodney Allen The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919–1945 . By Singal Daniel Joseph . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1982 . Pp. vii , 453 . $27.00 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Book Reviews 233 The War...

...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...

...Miguel Mellino The essay suggests that Frantz Fanon’s French term damnés has very different existentialist and political meanings than those conveyed by the English word wretched . Fanon’s conception of the damned was highly influenced by the revolutionary modernist political imagination of black...

... of pen-and-ink drawings by Ibrahim El Salahi, the pioneer Sudanese modernist painter who was imprisoned in the mid-1970s during the regime of military dictator Gaafar Nimeiri (1969–85). The essay provides a critical reading of these drawings in light of El Salahi's own unpublished memoir detailing...

... to challenge increasingly standardized narratives of modernism in many parts of Africa that link it primarily with reverse discourses, resistance narratives, and political independence to suggest more fluid approaches to modernist subjectivity and attention to the varied “tenses” for the modern? © 2010 Duke...

.... In defining their relationship with European and African artistic heritages, the Art Society and other postcolonial artists emphasized the importance of local and indigenous artistic resources in the making of their decidedly modernist work. The essay details the convening of the postcolonial literary...

...) and the Middle East (al-Mashraq al-Arabi), including the new Arab political and cultural formulations. Moreover, through the Arabic letter, North African artists, as all other Arab artists, found a solution to the modernist paradigm that demanded a severance with history and tradition. The Arabic letter served...

...Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann Tropiques , produced in Martinique between 1941 and 1945, was one of the most influential Caribbean instances of the modernist little magazine, or petit revue . The magazine was a collaborative cultural venture that saw Martinique through its subjection to Vichy rule...

...Nikolas Kosmatopoulos This auto-ethnographic essay revisits the story of the Beirut City Center Dome, also known as the “Egg,” a 1960s brutalist-modernist cinema abandoned to snipers during Lebanon’s civil war, which briefly became a stage for a direct action politics in the early days of Lebanon’s...

... could already be said to be following a well-established modernist tradition. What did arrive with Ad Reinhardt, however, was a rather intriguing coupling of the very old with the very new. In the attempt...

... market. Furthermore, that development was greatly influenced by the Great Depression and the arrival of many expatriate modernists fleeing fascism and war in Europe. Looking back from the perspective of 1938, Walt Kuhn, one of the leading organizers of the show, concluded that in spite of the number...

... to refer briefly to some questions provoked by the persistence of modernist forms and themes in today s art. Conceived for discussion, my remarks are meant more as motivation for debate than as a coherent exposition. Accordingly, I simplify the questions to the point of turning them into caricatures...

... to argue is that the second, spatial sense ought to be equally resonant with the temporal sense when the term post­ modernist is used, although in the post-age the former sense is usually suppressed and we automatically understand after to be the meaning which the prefix has. I take this suggestion...

... seem paradoxical in the first world: a postmodern world where not only the current cultural initiative but even the historical mod­ ern is threatened with being taken out of the hands of Marxism (or parodied by quips that make Stalin the greatest modernist by virtue of his successful modernization...

... a historical conjunction between the post-sixties demise of modernist claims for art’s autonomy allied to medium specificity and attempts in recent years to revivify aesthetics. He speaks of the legacy of concep...

... that includes Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe, and El Tayeb Salih. Most significant and more relevant here is the fact that Mancoba was a founding member of a major modernist art collective, the CoBrA group, and was married to Danish artist Sonja Ferlov, also an important CoBrA member.2...

... of the desire for a new idiom. 1 Long after the fact, Eliot was rationalizing his interests in continental lit­ eratures and in older periods of English literature. (American literary history would, however, eventually exact its revenge: Eliot would become the high modernist representative of the traditional...

... appeared in 1925 as A Draft of XVI Cantos, gatherings of cantos were published with regularity, to the end of Pound s life, including the infamous Pisan Cantos in 1948 and two volumes, in 1955 and 1959, written in the insane asylum. The least taught of the famous modernist texts, the collected volume...

.... With modernist abstraction, the subtle but always seemingly precarious delineation of the The South Atlantic Quarterly Summer Copyright © by Duke University Press. 480 Andrew McNamara aesthetic idea was again featured as a crucial...

... Barthes argued in a crude but suggestive way that the Modernist preoccupation with language and de Man s Romanticism is really a Modernism has to be understood as historical in both the widest and the narrowest sense. It predominates at a particular moment in history, and within that moment...