...Chapter 2 provides a historical context of the Anthracite region against the background of industrialization, modernity, and mass immigration. In this chapter the development of the anthracite industry is inextricably linked to broader historical contingencies. Global depressions, political...

...In this chapter, Drizou argues that Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie (1900) questions the rationalization of modern progress by depicting the turn of the century as a moment that wavers between the urgent incalculability of the future and the conventional knowledge...

... configurations and meanings of democracy among these Indo-Muslims. On this basis, Hosein shows how governance gains significance in the contemporary management of gender and community boundaries, national belonging, and Indo-Muslim modernities. She therefore explains why women’s contestations over authority...

... with, traumas and post-traumatic conditions resulting from black participation in modern warfare—participation that both Morrison and Phillips depict in terms of young black men being sent abroad to fight destructive and traumatizing wars that are not theirs to fight. The literal and metaphorical connections...

...My focus on the body has uncovered numerous strategies that postrevolutionary state actors employed to assimilate indigenous peoples. Modernity became, at its core, an embodied condition. Racial, genetic, cultural, and technological hybridity represented different incarnations of an official...

...The film archive that has sought to preserve the filmic world of the twentieth century is a project that is as nearly complicated as modernity itself. While critics and theorists have necessarily looked to cinema as a way to make sense of temporal and spatial shifting taking place in modernity...

... by the two novelists, Homero Aridjis and Gioconda Belli, in projecting them forward in time to form the base of the argument that the final outcome of modernization is finally a failed society prevailing in a devastated landscape. Aridjis Homero Belli Gioconda about ¿En quién piensas cuándo haces el amor...

...This chapter explores the meanings of modernity, modernization, and modernism, as well as how these were manifested in Brazil. In particular, it examines how the different ideologies of architectural modernism, both globally and in the Brazilian case specifically, developed out of the paradigm...

... on the vicissitudes of colonialism. After examining the attire of many of the characters in Ulysses and their imperfect attempts to follow contemporary fashion, the chapter concludes that James Joyce depicts many of his central figures as both complicit with and resistant to consumerist modernity...

... argues that Joyce's “creative translation or mistranslation” of precursor poets reveals a nascent hard and critical modernity that pushes against the poems' apparent sentimentality and archaism. In a far-ranging study of Joyce's uses of orality and aurality, the essay reveals the connections between...

...-century femininity in Fugitive Pieces (1927) has been unjustly trivialized because of its association with the realm of fashion. Drawing from extensive archival research, this chapter shows how Hutchinson repeatedly puts femininity and modernity into conversation as she interrogates what...

... on the promises and perils of becoming a modern nation. Intellectual movements and government programs to promote cultural nationalism advanced their own ways of reconciling modernity and local tradition, while popular culture became a platform for debating the role of women in constructing a modern national...

...This book reconstructs different images of modern femininities and their evolution during the 1920s and 1930s, showing that women were at the center of a public debate about modernity and its consequences on the emergence of an Argentine national identity. With a focus on competing media...

... presence. To do so, it adopted an office landscape design preoccupied by mechanized infrastructure as a key element of architectural modernity. Architecture Gulf Coast Historic American Buildings Survey International Style Johnson Space Center Kennedy John F Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center...

.... Ecological imaginations imbedded in novels written by Iparraguirre, Demitrópulos, and Belgrano Rawson are revealed in this chapter. These ecological imaginations try to bring cultural and environmental change to the foreground of the narrative regarding modernity in Latin America. These novels disclose...

...Opal Palmer Adisa's first novel, It Begins with Tears, represents a more contemporary revision of the Janie paradigm. Set in a fictional village in rural Jamaica, Adisa's novel interrogates contesting ideologies and values vis-à-vis notions of progress and modernity in the late...

...This chapter discusses changes in spiritual and religious practices after the 1960s through stories of Mariophanies in post-1970s Egypt. It studies ethnic strife in the framework of modern scripturalist concepts of religion and a modernist concept of truth. Such changes have affected nation...

...This essay considers the global dimensions of citizenship, freedom, and emancipation, comparing the emancipations of the nineteenth century to contemporary discussions about citizenship, nation, and modern forms of forced labor. Fundamental questions about labor, freedom, and citizenship posed...

... identity within modernity. Advice guide books Aesthetics The Age of Innocence Wharton The Craft of Fiction Lubbock Fiction Lubbock Percy Scribner’s Magazine Wegener Frederick Wharton Edith works Women writers The Writing of Fiction Wharton The Art of Writing Quiller Couch Audience Emerson John...

...It seems almost not worth remarking that modernity presupposes a relation to history — after all, a historicizing claim is built into the very concept of modernity. The term suggests that what modernism foregrounds in the experience and representation of modernity is a new historicity, a new...