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Lim, William Siew Wai. Alternative (post)modernity: An Asian perspective. [Singapore]: Select Pub., 2003.

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Places on the margin: Alternative geographies of modernity. London: Routledge, 1991.

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Feenberg, Andrew. Alternative modernity: The technical turn in philosophy and social theory. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

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Kaplan, Yosef. An alternative path to modernity: The Sephardi diaspora in western Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2000.

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Boston modern: Figurative expressionism as alternative modernism. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press ; University Press of New England, 2006.

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Reformers, critics, and the paths of German modernity: Anti-politics and the search for alternatives, 1890-1914. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2000.

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P, Eidelberg Martin, ed. Designed for delight: Alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts. New York: Flammarion, 1997.

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Borzyh, Stanislav. Theory of Mind. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1088340.

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This book deals with the problem of human reason and thinking from a somewhat unexpected angle. Its main idea is that both are the product of evolution, and therefore they bear the imprint of their history, and they are mostly reduced to them, although they are not entirely limited to them. This means that they are by no means universal, on the contrary, they are conditioned by their very formation and the circumstances within which they developed and which literally created them as we know them. In practical terms, this suggests that they are aimed at solving the problems and the type that faced our species during its rather long formation, and they are not able to answer any other questions, no matter how much effort we put into it. Even what seems to us an exceptional attribute of modernity or rationality, such as science or politics, fits within the framework of what is available to us, as well as what we are able to formulate and articulate in principle. That is, our intelligence is purely animal and contextual, it never goes beyond the limits set for it, despite the fact that we see it differently. In this regard, questions of their definition, origin, history and current state are considered, and among other things, alternative options that are potentially possible in the field of intelligence, both on Earth and in general, are studied. The text consists of five chapters, a preface and an afterword, is provided with illustrative examples and is aimed at the widest possible adult readership, who likes to think and who is not afraid of debunking some of the ingrained myths that accompany our lives.
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Lang, Anouk. Modernist Fiction/Alternative Modernisms. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0015.

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This chapter examines the history of modernist fiction in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada within the larger context of geomodernist scholarship. It first considers how modernism relates to modernity and modernization before discussing cultural nationalism and the debate between the ‘native’ and the ‘cosmopolitan’. It then analyses boundary-troubling between realism and modernism, James Joyce's influence on fiction writers, and the works of Indigenous writers that force a reconsideration of modernism. It also explores the publishing infrastructure of modernist fiction production as well as the dialectical move between imitation and subversion as seen in Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian literatures. Finally, it provides additional contexts through which to understand how material conditions such as the availability of publication outlets shape the ways in which literary movements develop and gather momentum.
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Tomba, Massimiliano. Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Shields, Rob. Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Zhou Zuoren and An Alternative Chinese Response to Modernity. Harvard University Asia Center, 2000.

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Feenberg, Andrew. Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory. University of California Press, 1995.

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Gandelsonas, Mario, ed. Shanghai Reflections: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Search for an Alternative Modernity. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.

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Daruvala, Susan. Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967) and an alternative Chinese response to modernity. 1993.

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Sewell, Graham. Management and Modernity. Edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Steven J. Armstrong, and Michael Lounsbury. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198708612.013.23.

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This chapter treats Modernity as a cultural and social project of modernization that involves bringing as many aspects of human existence as possible under the control of rational processes of knowledge and practice. Management is thus at the heart of this project as it is a means to the end of establishing rational order through design, classification, and intervention. The chapter begins by looking at how formal theories of administration have sought to further modernization before going on to how more sociological approaches have dealt with the relationship between management and Modernity. Finally, it proposes an alternative understanding of Weber’s concept of the Iron Cage in order to capture the tension at the heart of Modernity where ever greater rationalization is in conflict with the desire for stability and certainty.
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Shields, Rob. Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity (International Library of Sociology). Routledge, 1992.

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Pernau, Margrit. Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199497775.001.0001.

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With this pioneering project, Margrit Pernau brings the ‘history of emotions’ approach to South Asian studies. A theoretically sophisticated and erudite investigation, Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India maps the history of emotions in India between the uprising of 1857 and World War I. Situating the prevalent experiences, interpretations, and practices of emotions of the time within the context of the major political events of colonial India, Pernau goes beyond the dominant narrative of colonial modernity and its fixation with discipline and restrain, and traces the contemporary transformation from a balance in emotions to the resurgence of fervor. The current volume is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many being explored for the first time. Pernau grounds her work on such diverse sources as philosophical and theological treatises on questions of morality, advice literature, journals and newspapers, nostalgic descriptions of courtly culture, and even children’s literature. This close look into individual experiences, practices, and interpretations reveals the myriad emotions of the day, and the importance of these micro-histories in presenting an alternative account of colonial India.
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Eller, Jonathan R. Modernist Alternatives. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036293.003.0030.

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This chapter examines the dark themes and moods that characterize some of Ray Bradbury's short stories, a reflection of his deep ambivalence toward an increasingly destabilized world. Bradbury never developed a postmodernist dislike of where technology and science had brought the world, but he always remained wary of where science may lead mankind in the future. This predictive urge led him to use his science fiction stories to work through some of the issues left unresolved in his failed novels. This chapter discusses “—And the Moon Be Still as Bright” and several of Bradbury's tales, written in the 1946–1948 period, which are distinguished from other Bradbury stories of the period by their science fiction trappings, their unrelieved darkness, the lack of any familiar points of reference, and their relative obscurity within the Bradbury canon. It also considers the relationship stories that eased Bradbury through his impasse with Modernist themes.
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1958-, Rolland Denis, and Reis Filho Daniel Aarão, eds. Modernités alternatives: L'historien face aux discours et représentations de la modernité. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009.

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1958-, Rolland Denis, and Reis Filho Daniel Aarão, eds. Modernités alternatives: L'historien face aux discours et représentations de la modernité. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009.

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Sherinian, Zoe. Songs of Oru Olai and the Praxis of Alternative Dalit Christian Modernities in India. Edited by Jonathan Dueck and Suzel Ana Reily. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859993.013.14.

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This chapter addresses an alternative Dalit Christian modernity transmitted and practiced through song and drumming in Tamil Nadu, India. Using two examples of the praxis of sharing, I analyze expressions of agency by the caste and gender oppressed that shows an awareness of discourses of liberation in both the bible and the modern world outside the caste-inflected village. Daily practice of economic sustainability through community finds its musical analogy in folk music’s potential for re-creation, unity, accessibility, and common ownership by the oppressed. I theorize this as an indigenous religio-political cosmopolitanism, expressed by Dalits as a discourse of supra-localism and spirituality that reverses the discourse of caste impurity and pollution. These cases show the historical and contemporary nature of Christian transnational flow in the form of theology, politics, and utopian community, its dialogical process of indigenization, and the process of cross-cultural musical exchange to (re)make Christianity meaningful through local musical reconstruction.
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Comentale, Edward P. From a Basement on Long Island to a Mansion on the Hill. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037399.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter tackles the central themes of this book, at the same time expounding on the author's own musical experiences—here termed “taste biography”—and his aims to expand the scope of this work from the personal to the national. It also discusses a “vernacular modernism” relating to the genres of music to be discussed in succeeding chapters—what according to author Miriam Hansen considers “the vast and varied aesthetic experience of modern life that, in its everydayness, sustained a vital forum of exchange and transformation for those otherwise excluded from traditional forms of power and prestige.” Finally, the chapter argues that these genres sustain not just a set of alternative cultures, but also an alternative economy and an alternative public sphere—a countermodernity within modernity.
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Brewitt-Taylor, Sam. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827009.003.0001.

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This chapter critiques teleological accounts of Britain’s Sixties, arguing that the episode witnessed, not the arrival of ‘late modernity’ or ‘postmodernity’, but the sudden and contingent invention of an alternative modernity, triggered by profound anxieties about the Cold War. This alternative modernity was invented, largely unselfconsciously, by various cultural elites between 1955 and 1965, and was then enacted on a widespread scale from the late 1960s. Radical Anglican clergymen were ideally placed to play a pivotal role in the initial stages of this wider process of cultural invention, being simultaneously moral radicals and moral insiders, in a moral culture which during the 1950s had firmly identified itself as Christian. Radicals’ readings of Christian eschatology allowed them to play a crucial role in disseminating the idea that Britain’s future was necessarily ‘secular’, and significant contributory roles in the wider construction of British secularity as intrinsically global, anti-authoritarian, antinomian, and egalitarian.
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Lauzon, Matthew J. Modernity. Edited by Jerry H. Bentley. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235810.013.0005.

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This article discusses modernity, considering different aspects such as European intellectual and cultural history, global modernity, critiques of modernity, and multiple and alternate modernities. The related terms modern and modernity are notoriously wooly words with contested chronologies and debated definitions. At the most prosaic level, the words imply simply something like ‘new’ or ‘now’. Many use the term ‘modern’ in this sense as a marker of temporal discontinuity and present a variety of different dates. The field of world history, like anthropology, is a reflexive project that contributes to the articulation of modernities even as it attempts to represent them.
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Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Bar-On, Tamir. Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism. Northern Illinois University Press, 2017.

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Emery, Jacob. Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism. Northern Illinois University Press, 2017.

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Churchill, David. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797845.003.0001.

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The introduction critically interrogates orthodox accounts of crime control and modernization, and outlines the conceptual and methodological basis of an alternative interpretation. In particular, it critiques the state monopolization thesis—the notion that the state assumed full control over the response to crime in the modern era, which it has relinquished only recently, in an age of late modernity. To counter such accounts of crime control and modernity, the introduction advances a multifaceted conceptual framework for understanding the governance of crime, drawing on historical and sociological scholarship on governance and governmentality. Furthermore, it outlines the study’s methodology, which combines qualitative and quantitative analysis of newspaper reports, court depositions, and police records. Finally, it establishes the urban context for the study by synthesizing research on contours of urbanization, social structure, and shifting formations of urban space.
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Tomba, Massimiliano. Insurgent Universality. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190883089.001.0001.

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Insurgent Universality presents an intervention in current discussions on universalism, democracy, and property. It investigates other trajectories besides traditional ones of modernity and traces an alternative legacy for contemporary movements. This legacy exceeds the familiar juridical horizon of citizenship, individual rights, and the state by revisiting questions relating to power, democratic practices, and the modern conception of private property. Insurgent Universality investigates and displays alternative trajectories of modernity that have been repressed, hindered, and forgotten. These trajectories are not only embodiments of a radical hope and a new conception of universality that arose from insurgencies from below; they also alert us to possibilities in our present that have been underestimated or overlooked. Eventually, they show us alternative institutions by which to reshape our present. These experimental democratic practices and institutions are based on the pluralism of authorities instead of the monopoly power of the state. However, such an inquiry resists the utopian urge to clear the tables. Instead, the book examines more closely, and with a fresh perspective, those aspects of our intellectual inheritance that we have allowed to remain in the darkness. By doing this, Insurgent Universality aims to “decolonize” European history, offering an image of Europe that is not monolithic but, rather, composed of many layers and paths that have been repressed or forgotten. The aim of the book is to rebuild those roads not taken and bridge them with non-European trajectories and political experiments.
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editor, Lepik Andres, Bader Vera Simone editor, Anelli, Renato, writer of added text, Technische Universität München Architekturmuseum, and Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, Germany), eds. Lina Bo Bardi 100: Brazil's alternative path to modernism. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014.

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Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Segre, Sandro. Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives: Three Contemporary Sociological Theorists on Modernity and Other Options. Anthem Press, 2020.

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Segre, Sandro. Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives: Three Contemporary Sociological Theorists on Modernity and Other Options. Anthem Press, 2020.

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Segre, Sandro. Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives: Three Contemporary Sociological Theorists on Modernity and Other Options. Anthem Press, 2020.

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Ritzinger, Justin. Anarchy in the Pure Land. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190491161.001.0001.

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Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement spearheaded by Taixu as an avenue through which to consider the formation of alternative modernities. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind of concern for ritual, supernatural beings, and the afterlife that much scholarship contends the reformers rejected in the name of “modernity.” This book shows that rather than a concession to tradition, the reimagining of ideas and practices associated with Maitreya was an important site for formulating a Buddhist vision of modernity. To make sense of this it develops a new perspective on alternative modernities by drawing on Charles Taylor’s notion of moral frameworks, arguing that the cult of Maitreya represents an attempt to articulate a new constellation of values that integrates novel understandings of the good clustered around modern visions of utopia with the central Buddhist value of Buddhahood. Part I traces the roots of this constellation to Taixu’s youthful career as an anarchist. Part II examines its articulation in the “Maitreya School’s” theology and the cult’s development from its inception to World War II. Part III examines its subsequent decline and its contemporary legacy within and beyond orthodox Buddhism.
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Leman, Peter. Singing the Law. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621136.001.0001.

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“Singing the Law” is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, I begin with an analysis of the cultural narratives of time and modernity that formed the foundations of British colonial law. Recognizing the contradictory nature of these narratives (i.e., they both promote and retreat from the Euro-centric ideal of temporal progress) enables us to make sense of the many representations of and experiments with non-linear, open-ended, and otherwise experimental temporalities that we find in works of East African literature that take colonial law as a subject or point of critique. Many of these works, furthermore, consciously appropriate orature as an expressive form with legal authority. This affords them the capacity to challenge the narrative foundations of colonial law and its postcolonial residues and offer alternative models of temporality and modernity that give rise, in turn, to alternative forms of legality. East Africa’s “oral jurisprudence” ultimately has implications not only for our understanding of law and literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts, but more broadly for our understanding of how the global south has shaped modern law as we know and experience it today.
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Negri, Antonio. Le pouvoir constituant : Essai sur les alternatives de la modernité. Presses Universitaires de France - PUF, 1997.

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Gotman, Kélina. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840419.003.0001.

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‘Choreomania’ borrows from and extends the Orientalist trope described by Edward W. Said: imagined as feminine, exotic, and ancient, so-called choreomaniacs were also described in colonial medical and anthropological literature as jagged and unpredictable. ‘Epidemic hysterias’ involving frenzied dancing, or individual ticking and jerking, constitute an alternative history of gestural modernity, opposite to the smooth and efficient movement of ‘torque’. The fantasy of dance-like neuromotor disorder disrupting the smooth march of modernity constitutes choreomania as a swarm-like madness whose conceptual genealogy, following Michel Foucault, can be traced through a discursive history articulated across fields. The chapter proposes to think about the movement of this writing, the archival repertoire of scenes describing disorderly movement as it circulated around the world. Choreography itself can thus be understood as an art and science of motion, in motion: ‘choreography’—writing dance—describes the imagined, and moving, borderline between figures of order and unrest.
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Feldman, Leah. On the Threshold of Eurasia. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501726507.001.0001.

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On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet “East” as a political, aesthetic and scientific system of ideas that contributed to the construction of Soviet discourses of ethnicity, empire, and literary modernity during the tumultuous first two decades of the twentieth century, from 1905 to 1929. It exposes connections between literary works, political essays, and orientalist history, geography, and ethnology written by Russian and Azeri Turkic Muslim writers and thinkers, many of whom have been unknown to Anglophone readers until now. Tracing translations and intertextual engagements across Russia, the Caucasus and western Europe, this book offers an alternative vision of empire, modernity and anti-imperialism from the vantage point of cosmopolitan centers in the Russian empire and Soviet Union. In this way, On the Threshold of Eurasia illustrates the pivotal impact of the literature of the Caucasus and the former Soviet periphery more broadly on the monumental aesthetic and political shifts of the early twentieth century.
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Tremblay, Tony. Fiddlehead Moment: Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

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S AM 03: Pancho Guedes An Alternative Modernist (No. 3). Christoph Merian Verlag, 2007.

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Tremblay, Tony. Fiddlehead Moment: Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

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Bookbinder, Judith. Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism (Revisiting New England). University of New Hampshire Press, 2005.

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Stones of Ferdinand Pouillon: An Alternative Modernism in French Architecture. E T H Honggerberg Zurich Ausstellungsorganisation des Institutes fur Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, 2014.

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Smith, Angela. Colonial Modernists. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0016.

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This chapter looks at a range of colonial fiction up to 1950 by writers native to Australia, New Zealand, India, the Caribbean, and Canada, which in some way develops and inflects modernist aspiration and practice. The old paradigm, that European models of literary modernism were disseminated to outposts of the British Empire, possibly via such cultural missionaries as E. M. Forster or D. H. Lawrence, and then belatedly imitated, or that artists from the colonies travelled to the metropolitan centre to discover and be transformed by the avant-garde, is evidently undermined by a cursory glance at colonial writing at the end of the nineteenth century. The colonial modernist fiction to 1950 discussed in this chapter is inflected by intimate experience of imperial power, as in the case of Mulk Raj Anand and Claude McKay, and by awareness of an alternative aesthetic and morality in the work of Emily Carr and Katherine Susannah Prichard.
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Pierre, Halen, and Neuschäfer Anne, eds. Alternatives modernistes: (1919-1939). Bruxelles: Textyles-éditions, 2001.

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Drexler-Dreis, Joseph. Decolonial Love. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823281886.001.0001.

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This book raises the question of what it means to engage in theological reflection in an authentic way in the present context of global coloniality. In response to the historical manifestations of the coloniality of power on the levels of being, knowledge, and eschatology, it searches for a decolonized image of salvation that can unsettle historical structures of coloniality. The book starts by analyzing modern/colonial structures that shape the present context and the ways Christian theology is entangled in these structures. I then argues that the theological work of Ignacio Ellacuría and Jon Sobrino points to the theoretical possibility of a theology that contests the patterns of domination that continue after political decolonization. Using the work of Ellacuría and Sobrino, it turns to the ways Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin responded to colonial modernity by exposing idols and revealing illusionary notions of stasis in light of alternative commitments to orientations of decolonial love. This decolonial love, and the ways it is historicized in praxis, is perceived as violent from the perspective of Western modernity. This book argues that the orientations of decolonial from which Fanon and Baldwin operate break open cracks in Western modernity and make salvation present in history. Decolonial love thus becomes theologically pedagogic—that is, it provides a source from which to make theological claims. Decolonial love offers one way of doing theology and one way of shaping the content of a decolonized image of salvation.
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Mitchell, Arthur M. Disruptions of Daily Life. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752919.001.0001.

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This book explores the mass-media landscape of the early twentieth cspecific authorsentury to uncover the subversive societal impact of four major Japanese authors: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko. The book examines the literature against global realities through a modernist lens, studying an alternative modernism that challenges the Western European model. Through broad surveys of discussions surrounding Japanese life in the 1920s, the book locates and examines flourishing divergent ideologies of the early twentieth century, such as gender, ethnicity, and nationalism. It unravels how the narrative and linguistic strategies of modernist texts interrogated the innocence of this language, disrupting their hold on people's imagined relationship to daily life. These modernist works often discursively displaced the authority of their own claims by inadvertently exposing the global epistemology of East versus West. The book expands modernism studies into a more translational dialogue by locating subversions within the local historical culture and allowing readers to make connections to the time and place in which the texts were written. In highlighting the unbreakable link between literature and society, it reaffirms the value of modernist fiction and its ability to make us aware of how realities are constructed — and how those realities can be changed.
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