The full story of modernism is yet to be written. This collection of essays provides an
important page in this complex and inconclusive story of fluidities and hybridities by
rendering problematical the linear sequence from modernism to postmodernism. This book explores
the many facets of modernism in a variety of essays written by an international group of
scholars. It deals with and puts in question the western literary tradition in many of its
transcontinental and trans-hemispheric encounters. Criticism of 'high modernism' is put in
perspective by discussions of German 'reactionary modernism' American 'social modernism' and
'minor arts' mid-twentieth-century 'Baudelairean modernity' and unprecedented expansions of
the concepts of modernity and modernism themselves. Engaging in dialogue with the newest
geographical transnational and global enlargements of the concept of modernism in time and
space (from the 'Middle Passage' to emergent cultures of the twenty-first century from Europe
to America Africa and Asia) the volume covers a wide range of translocal and transtemporal
literary artistic cultural and social fields and perspectives.
