Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time

by Susan Stanford Friedman

Book Overview

Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231170912
• ISBN13: 9780231170918
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"