Translocated Modernisms

Emily Ballantyne, Marta Dvořák, Dean Irvine

• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780776623801
• eBook ISBN: 9780776623825
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Translocated Modernisms is a collection of ten chapters partitioned into sections and framed by an introduction by the editors and a coda by Kit Dobson, which is interested in those who thronged to the vibrant streets, cafés, and salons of Montparnasse, those who stayed such as Brion Gysin and Mavis Gallant, those who returned "home" such as Morley Callaghan, John Glassco, David Silverberg, and Sheila Watson, and those who galvanized local cultural practices by appropriating and translating them from elsewhere. While for some Paris becomes a permanent home, for others, it is simply a temporary excursion which can last for months, or for many years. The collection opens up the Lost Generation to include multiple generations and broadens its ambit to encompass modernist writers placed under erasure by dominant narratives of Anglo-American modernism. Instead of limiting the category to a single group based on a collective identity, this volume considers lost generations as a particular type of modernist identity attributable to multiple and disparate collectivities. These lost generations include those excluded from canonical narrativizations of expatriate modernisms, among which we spy the glimmer of other modernists living in the shadowsof luminaries long recognized in the Anglo-American tradition.

Index

A

abstraction 92, 100, 102

abstract expressionism 92

action painting 78, 94

aestheticism 164, 238, 242

Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists (Trehearne) 164, 238, 242

Africa 3, 12, 17, 28, 59, 74, 76–78, 230

African American 11, 18, 219

Aikens, Suezan 104

Algeria 83

alienation 4–5, 15, 64, 180, 183, 185, 189, 191, 193

alienated 70

Allen, Woody 235, 237, 241

allographic 224

alterity 4, 191

altermodernism

altermodernities 237

altermodernity 236

Angell, Katharine 128, 139, 141

Anglo-Eurocentrism 75

Anglo-European 79

anonymity 15, 62, 180, 185, 188, 193

anti-Americanism 27

anti-bourgeois 236

anti-Canadian 139

anti-Cartesian 227

anti-colonial 83

anti-European-colonialism 83

anti-imperial 76, 82

anti-modern 237

anti-sales 73

anti-Semitic 138

Arabic 13, 75, 80

Arabian 82

archives 14, 40, 120, 137, 140, 157, 165–68, 172–74, 240

archival 14, 127, 136, 139, 149, 161, 165, 173

archive 14, 160, 165–66, 168–71, 173–75, 228

archiving 166

and history 14, 165, 166

and memory 165

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• I A Matter of Life and Death
• II Places
• Illustrations
• III Practices
• IV Intersections
• Coda
• Altermodernities: Thankfully, We Have Never Been Modern
• Contributors
• Index