The Editors
Contributions
The new year started wonderfully for Modernism/modernity when the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) announced on 9 January that we had won their annual Best Digital Feature Award for the Print Plus cluster on Hope Mirrlees’s Paris.
“Bucolic Mussolini”: Sexual Politics and Antifascism in Winifred Holtby’s South Riding
Daniela Caselli
The Lyrical Literature of Distant Listening
Emilie Morin
Mining Modernism in Photographs from Imperial Khiva and Turkestan: Xudoybergan Devonov’s Experiments with the “Type”
Ksenia Un
The Matter of Imperformance: The Theater Worlds of Jack B. Yeats
Eleanor Lybeck
The annual holiday season in India is in October/November when the festival of Diwali is celebrated across the country.
The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia
Preetha Mani and Jennifer Dubrow
The Imagist Ghazal: Urdu Modernism and Japan
Jennifer Dubrow
Hindi After Urdu: North Indian Modernisms and the Multiple Poetics of Fragmentation
Gregory Goulding
Modernism at the Conjunctures: Marathi Multilingualisms in the 1979 Special Issue of Rucā
Anjali Nerlekar
How Absurdism Became a Postcolonial Aesthetic: A Drama in Three Scenes
Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde
Michael M. Weinstein
Modernity’s Suffocations: Plantation Assemblages in Faulkner’s Miasmic South
Sarah Hopkinson
“The Roads Is Good Now”: Rural Infrastructure in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
Ethan King
Ecological Modernist Poets of Singapore: Wong May and Ho Poh Fun
Ann Ang
Winged Visions: James Joyce, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, and the Anti-Künstlerroman
Jue Hou
Absent Presence: Virginia Woolf and British Polish Jewish Publishing Networks
Paulina Pająk
The “Unusual Dimension”: H.D., Jean Rhys, and the Projection of Bodies Through Time
Sarah Nance
Alchemy of the World: André Breton and Hector Hyppolite’s Otherworldly Revolution
L. J. Cooper
Unfortunately, we are never far from wars, and the essays and images in Modernism/modernity have been reflecting on that repeatedly in the past few issues and on Print Plus.
“Coming out of the dark”: Late Modernism on the Radio
Oliver Evans
Dreaming through Marg
Rashmi Viswanathan
“Time is always guilty”: Narratives of Modernity in Interwar Detective Fiction
Stuart Middleton
Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and the Impasses of Progressive Art
Rohan Ghatage
A forum for reflections that live in the creative space between disciplines, languages, media, and categories.
Intermittent Love: Relational Modes in Proust
Zakir Paul
Playing Amanuensis to Inner Urges: Masculinity, Authorial Anxiety, and Wallace Thurman’s Typewriter
Tamlyn Avery
“Like a Living Plant”: Modernizations of Rootwork in Cane and Passing
Mia Alafaireet
We have a timely cover for the 31.3 issue. The questions of choice, propaganda, and freedom surround us today, as they did during the Second World War, when the periodical Choix was published (read about its fascinating history in the essay by Guy Woodward and James Smith).
Literary Labor: Radclyffe Hall’s Reproductive Futures
Hannah Roche
Zora Neale Hurston’s Recorder
Kristin Rivero
4′′ x 6′′ Time Machines: Nabokovian Mnemotechnics and Interwar Psychical Research
Elvin Meng
Cosmopolitan Anarchy: Ananda Coomaraswamy, Transnationalism, and Walt Whitman
Allan Antliff
Surviving the Disappearance of Landscape: Joan Merli, the Catalan Exile Who Printed Argentine Modernity
Pablo García Martínez
A Contagious Ophthalmic Psychosis: Carl Julius Salomonsen and the Epidemic of Artistic Modernism in Europe, 1919–20
Andrew Hodgson
The Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais, 1919–1940
Clara Jones
Writing for Goony Friends: Jane Bowles, Weak Theory, and Coterie Aesthetics in Midcentury American Literary Culture
Nicholas Beck
The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety
Barry Sheils
Looking beyond the Mutoscope Cinematicity in “Nausicaa”
Keith Williams
The Unpastoral: Walter Ruttman and the Politics of Symphonic Form
Sarah Pourciau
Fetishizing Blackness in the Harlem Renaissance
Patrick Kindig
The first issue of volume thirty one of Modernism/modernity is here and the range and depth of the essays in the new issue is noteworthy.
In the coming weeks, we will be delighted to promote Modernism/modernity 30.4—which arrived in mailboxes a little while ago—on Print Plus.