...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Alice Kaplan; Philippe Roussin Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Alice Kaplan and Philippe Roussin Celine s Modernity It s with Baudelaire, the inventor of the notion of modernity and the translator of Poe, that the idea of Americanization first ap­ pears in French literature...

...J. Victor Koschmann Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 J. Victor Koschmann Maruyama Masao and the Incomplete Project of Modernity One cannot . . . provide a coherent account of postmodernity without a determinate concept of modernity; and such a concept cannot be devel­ oped...

...Naoki Sakai Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Naoki Sakai Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism Even though I will predictably reach the conclusion that the postmodern, an other of the modern, cannot be identified in terms of our "modern...

...Luis Britto-García Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Luis Britto-Garci'a Critiques of Modernity: Avant-Garde, Counterculture, Revolution In the last decades, a group of movements whose common denominator is the critique of modernity has been characterized as post­ modern...

... . Desencuentros de la modernidad en América Latina: Literatura y política en el siglo XIX (Divergent Modernities in Latin America: Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century) . Mexico City : FCE . Siskind Mariano . 2014 . Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin...

...Louis Pendleton Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 THE MODERNITY OF THE ANCIENTS LOUIS PENDLETON WHEN A COLLEGE professor ventures to assure his class that descriptions of the personal appearance of men did not appear in literature until the time of Chaucer, we are again reminded...

...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...

...: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993 . ———. “Sounds Authentic: Black Music,Ethnicity, and the Challenge of a Changing Same.” Black Music Research Journal 11.2 ( 1991 ): 111 –36. Glasser, Ruth. Music Is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Ian Hunter It is sometimes presumed that early modern religious conflict can be understood (and judged) on the basis of philosophical principles of religious freedom that display the irrationality of such conflict. Some derive these principles from Lockean and Kantian doctrines purporting to show...