- Paperback - Number of Pages: 384 pages
- Dimensions: 152.4 x 226.06 x 20.32mm - 498.95g
- Publication date: 03 Jan 2012
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication City/Country: New York, United States
- Language: English
Vigorously expanding the scope of modernist and postcolonial fiction studies, Modernist Commitments ranges boldly from early-twentieth-century India to Civil War Spain and Depression-era U.S. corn lands, encompassing not only writers such as Woolf, Rhys, Joyce, and Anand but also little-known authors of domestic, postcolonial, wartime, and working-class narratives. In her multifaceted, engaging, and richly researched book, Berman spans the archival and the philosophical, advances the transnationalization of modernist studies, and powerfully reveals the ethical and political urgencies embedded in modernist narrative technique. -- Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics Modernist Commitments is a rigorously philosophical and comparative contribution to transnational modernist studies. It juxtaposes locations of modernity seldom conjoined-e.g., colonial India, Civil War Spain, and the rural United States, along with London and Dublin-and is particularly valuable for its exploration o...