Behind the Masks of Modernism
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Behind the Masks of Modernism

Global and Transnational Perspectives

  1. 305 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Behind the Masks of Modernism

Global and Transnational Perspectives

About this book

"A wide-ranging collection that allows the mask—as artifact, metaphor, theatrical costume, fetish, strategy for self-concealment, and treasured cultural object—to clarify modernity's relationship to history."--Carrie J. Preston, author of Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance "Covering an impressive range of geographies, cultures, and time periods, these carefully researched essays explore the fascinating role of masks and masking in mediating the relationship between tradition and modernity in both art and literature."--Paul Jay, author of The Humanities "Crisis" and the Future of Literary Studies

Behind the Masks of Modernism reconsiders the meaning of "modernism" by taking an interdisciplinary approach and stretching beyond the Western modernist canon and the literary scope of the field. The essays in this diverse collection explore numerous regional, national, and transnational expressions of modernity through art, history, architecture, drama, literature, and cultural studies around the globe. Masks--both literal and metaphorical--play a role in each of these artistic ventures, from Brazilian music to Chinese film and Russian poetry to Nigerian masquerade performance.

The contributors show how artists and writers produce their works in moments of emerging modernity, aesthetic sensibility, and deep societal transformations caused by modern transnational forces. Using the mask as a thematic focus, the volume explores the dialogue created through regional modernisms, emphasizes the local in describing universal tropes of masks and masking, and challenges popular assumptions about what modernism looks like and what modernity is.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Behind the Masks of Modernism
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Rabindranath Tagore’s Mysterious Faces and India’s Encounter with Modernism
  10. 2. A Pedagogy for Modernity: Brazilian Modernism and Heitor Villa-Lobos Revisited
  11. 3. Unmasking the Journalistic Aesthetics of Spanish American Modernismo
  12. 4. From Pre-Columbian Masks to the Basque Cromlech: The Art of Unconcealment through Jorge Oteiza
  13. 5. The “Colder Artifice”: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, and the Mask of Blackness
  14. 6. The Emotion as Such: Un/Masking the Poet in Mayakovsky’s Work
  15. 7. Complicity: New Zealand’s Modernization and the Postcolonial Trickster of Keri Hulme’s The Bone People
  16. 8. Nyoro Masquerade as a Hunt for Modernity: A View from a West African City
  17. 9. Roots Reconfigured: Contemporary Chinese Masks in the Flux of Modernity
  18. Afterword: The Slow Burn of Modernity
  19. Bibliography
  20. List of Contributors
  21. Index