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...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...

...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...

...Dwight David Allman Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Dwight David Allman Ancient Friends, Modern Enemies Friends, there are no friends, thus said the dying sage; Foes, there is no foe! say I, the living fool. Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human "The trial...

...Fredric Jameson Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Fredric Jameson In the Mirror of Alternate Modernities: Introduction to Karatani Kojin s The Origins ofJapanese Literature I have high hopes that the publication of Karatani Kojin s book one of those infre­ quent moments in which...

...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...

...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...

...Immanuel Wallerstein Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Immanuel Wallerstein The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System 26 August 1789, the French National Assembly adopted the Declaration...

...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...

...Greil Marcus Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Greil Marcus A Corpse in Your Mouth: Adventures of a Metaphor, or Modern Cannibalism People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to every­ day life, without understanding what is sub­ versive...

...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...

...Brett de Bary Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Brett de Bary Karatani Kojin s Origins ofModern Japanese Literature The brief afterword to Karatani Kojin s Ori­ gins of Modern Japanese Literature (Nihon kindai bungaku no kigen, 1980) contains sev­ eral disclaimers. This book...

...David Lee Miller David Lee Miller The Death of the Modern: Gender and Desire in Marlowe s Hero and Leander . . . simulations are undertaken in full awareness of the absence of the life they contrive to repre­ sent, and hence they may skillfully anticipate and compensate for the vanishing...

...Charles Reagan Wilson The Death of Bear Bryant: Myth and Ritual in the Modern South Charles Reagan Wilson Legend has it that Paul Bear Bryant knew he would die if he quit coaching. No folklore has suggested that he predicted the immense scope of his own funeral, though. It lacked the historic...

.... His sound decision to reproduce documents as written rather than to modernize them somewhat makes a slight sacrifice in readability for a greater gain in accuracy. All those fascinated by these letters can look forward to numerous sequels, for Laurens, born in Charleston in 1724, lived to play...

...Stephen B. Oates Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 In Thine Own Image : Modern Radicals and John Brown Stephen B. Oates It is commonplace for American activists like activists everywhere else to use history for self-vindication. Too many of them regard the past as a storehouse...

...William W. Kelly Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction: Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe . By Holman C. Hugh . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1966 . Pp. xiv , 95 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 275 Three Modes...

...Victor H. Strandberg Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry . By Dembo L. S. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1966 . Pp. ix , 248 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 570 The South Atlantic Quarterly Hjelmslev and Trubetzkoy, de...