In our introduction to bad modernisms, we traced the emergence of the new modernist studies, which was born on or about 1999 with the invention of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) and its annual conferences; with the provision of exciting new forums for exchange in the journals Modernism/Modernity and (later) Modernist Cultures; and with the publication of books, anthologies, and articles that took modernist scholarship in new methodological directions. When we offered that survey, one of our principal interests was to situate these events in a longer critical history of modernism in the arts. In the present report, we want to attend more closely to one or two recent developments that may be suggestive about the present and the immediate future of the study of modernist literature. Part of the empirical, though certainly far from scientific, basis of our considerations lies in our recent service on the MSA Book Prize committee (Walkowitz in 2005, Mao in 2006), through which we became acquainted with dozens of recent contributions to the field.

The New Modernist Studies

Susan Stanford Friedman is Virginia Woolf Professor of english and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-madison. She writes extensively on modernism, including such writers as H.d., Woolf, and Joyce. Her recent books include Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter and Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle. Currently, she is writing on globalization, migration, and diaspora as well as her book in progress, Planetary Modernism and the Modernities of Empire, Nation, and Diaspora. modernism / modernity volume thirteen, number three, pp 425–443. © 2006 the johns hopkins

Periodizing Modernism: Postcolonial Modernities and the Space/Time Borders of Modernist Studies

This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ground to show the role of popular genres - such as science fiction and mystery novels - in the creation of the literary tradition One of the original features of this book is the dialogue between the essays, highlighting cross-currents between authors and their works as well as across historical periods While offering a narrative of the development of the genre, the History reflects the multiple methodologies that have informed readings of the American novel and will change the way scholars and readers think about American literary history

The Cambridge history of the American novel

Planetarity: Musing Modernist Studies

In the wake of large-scale events such as Hurricane Katrina, there is growing consensus that social justice and environmental issues are linked. The 11th Hour, a recent documentary narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, foregrounds images of Lower Ninth Ward residents standing on their roofs waiting for rescue and emphasizes United Nations estimates that ignoring the growing climate change crisis could result in over 150 million "environmental refugees" and a rapidly increasing extinction rate by the middle of this century. But for decades before Katrina, there were profound tensions between the concerns of the activists, scholars, and leaders of the mainstream conservation- and wilderness-oriented environmental movement and those of the US Environmental Justice movement, who argued that social and environmental issues could not be separated. These tensions were dramatically illustrated in 2004 when Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus released "The Death of Environmentalism," a report addressing the environmental movement's failure to achieve real success on the issue of global warming. Shellenberger and Nordhaus stated that the "children of the environmental movement must never forget that we are standing on the shoulders of all those who came before us" (6). The shoulders they claimed to stand on were those of John Muir, who campaigned at the end of the nineteenth century to establish Yosemite National Park. In a response titled "The Soul of Environmentalism," activists and scholars of the Environmental Justice Movement saluted the Shellenberger and Nordhaus report for instigating the debate over global warming, but noted that many environmentalists of color choose not to stand on the shoulders of Muir since he developed his conservation ethic during the movement to abolish slavery and in the midst of the expropriation of Native American lands for the creation of national parks, yet never addressed these two great racial struggles (19). For over twenty years, the Environmental Justice movement offered a home to activists who were not "comfortable separating their concern over the state of the planet from their concerns about social justice" (Gelobter 20). The roots of the environmental movement can be traced back to the abolition movement, which revealed the connections between colonization, conquest, slavery, resource exploitation, and capital, and many of the most successful strategies of early environmentalism were borrowed from the abolition, civil rights, and women's movements and American Indian Land Claims lawsuits. For this reason, any history of environmentalism that did not include W. E. B. Du Bois, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., or Cesar Chavez, among others, would need to be revised. In The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005), Lawrence Buell writes about the powerful impact that the Environmental Justice movement has had in the field of literary environmentalism, often described as "ecocriticism" and sometimes as "environmental criticism." Buell describes what he terms a "first" and "second wave" of environmental literary criticism (17). "First wave" environmental criticism concerns itself with conventional nature writing and conservation-oriented environmentalism, which traces its origins to the work of Emerson, Muir, and Thoreau. "Second wave" environmental criticism redefines the environment in terms of the seventeen Principles of Environmental Justice and increasingly concerns itself with "issues of environmental welfare and equity" and "critique of the demographic homogeneity of traditional environmental movements and academic environmental studies" (Buell 112, 115). (1) The decades-old tensions reflected in "The Death of Environmentalism" and "The Soul of Environmentalism'" are also present in more recent first- and second-wave environmental criticism, as the intersection between ethnicity and environment has become a focal point of a flood of recent books and articles. Cheryll Glotfelty pointed to this tension in 1996 when she asked implicitly, "Where are the other voices'? …

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Guest Editors' Introduction: The Shoulders We Stand On: An Introduction to Ethnicity and Ecocriticism

Introduction: Planet and America, Set and Subset by Wai Chee Dimock 1 PART ONE: The Field, the Nation, the World 17 Chapter 1: Global and Babel: Language and Planet in American Literature by Jonathan Arac 19 Chapter 2: The Deterritorialization of American Literature by Paul Giles 39 Chapter 3: Unthinking Manifest Destiny: Muslim Modernities on Three Continents bySusan Stanford Friedman 62 PART TWO: Eastern Europe as Test Case 101 Chapter 4: Mr. Styron's Planet by Eric J. Sundquist 103 Chapter 5: Planetary Circles: Philip Roth, Emerson, Kundera by Ross Posnock 141 PART THREE: Local and Global 169 Chapter 6: World Bank Drama by Joseph Roach 171 Chapter 7: Global Minoritarian Culture by Homi K. Bhabha 184 Chapter 8: Atlantic to Pacific: James, Todorov, Blackmur, and Intercontinental Form by David Palumbo-Liu 196 Chapter 9: Ecoglobalist Affects: The Emergence of U.S. Environmental Imagination on a Planetary Scale by Lawrence Buell 227 Chapter 10: At the Borders of American Crime Fiction by Rachel Adams 249 Chapter 11: African, Caribbean, American: Black English as Creole Tongue by Wai Chee Dimock 274 Index 301

Homi K. Bhabha

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Shades of the planet : American literature as world literature