188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Reorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representation termed border modernism that challenges the aesthetic hegemony of metropolitan (high) modernism. In this study, Schedler compares the works of European and Anglo-American modernists with the works of Mexican, Native American, and Chicano writers who engaged with modernist... Read more
Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Border Modernism; 1. Migrations; I. Mariano Azuela: Migratory Modernism; II. D. H. Lawrence: Modernist Migrations; III. From Deracination to Deterritorialization; 2. Natives; I. John Joseph Mathews: Tribal Modernism; II. Ernest Hemingway: Modernist Tribalism; III. From Primitivism to Tribalism; 3. Cultures; I. Willa Cather: Modernist Ethnography; II. Ame?rico Paredes: Ethnographic Modernism; III. From Formalism to Historicism; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index;

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Christopher Schedler