Mediterranean Modernism [electronic resource] : Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development /
Goldwyn, Adam J.editor.
Silverman, Renée M.editor.
This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial. .
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
.Introduction: Fernand Braudel and the Invention of a Modernist’s Mediterranean Adam J. Goldwyn and Renée M. Silverman -- Part I: Personal Reflections on the Multi-Cultural Mediterranean -- 1 Mafarka Before Being a Futurist: The Intimate Egypt in the Writings of F.T. Marinetti Nadine Makram Wassef -- 2 Marginal Modernists: Claude McKay, Panait Istrati, and the “Minor Mediterranean” Charles Sabatos -- 3 Mediterranean Crossroads: the Spanish University Cruise, 1933Juan Herrero-Senés -- 4 Catalan Political Modernism: The Case of Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga (1873–1941) and Modernism on the Periphery David W. Bird -- 5 Geopoetics and Historical Modernism: Gertrude Stein, Laura Riding and Robert Graves in Mallorca, 1912–1936 Anett Jessop -- 6 A Scent of Jasmine from the Sea? Representations of Tunis in Villa Jasmin by Férid Boughedir and Le chant des mariées by Karin Albou Federica Frediani -- Part II: Communal Reflections of the Postcolonial Mediterranean -- 7 Naming Surreally: Lautréamont’s Chants de Maldoror and Nikos Engonopoulos’s worship of the “Greek” Vasiliki Dimoula -- 8 Sharing the Stage in Istanbul: the Multi-ethnic Beginnings of Ottoman Theatre Defne Çizakça -- 9 From Autarky to “Barbarian” Cosmopolitanism: The Early Avant-Garde Movements in Slovenia and Croatia Marijan Dović -- 10 Modernism, Nationalism, Albanianism: Geographic Poetry and Poetic Geography in the Albanian and Kosovar Independence Movements Adam J. Goldwyn -- 11 Gender Dystopia on the Kibbutz: From Plato to Marx Rob Baum  -- 12 Flâneurs in The Orient: The Colonial Maghrib and The Origins of the French Modernist Tradition Gavin Murray-Miller  -- 13 The Alexandria Biennale and Egypt’s Shifting Mediterranean Dina Ramadan. .
This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial. .
History, Modern.
Civilization—History.
Postmodernism (Literature).
Africa, North—History.
Modern History.
Cultural History.
Postmodern Literature.
History of North Africa.