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Modernities and Modernization in North America

Herausgeber: Brasch, Ilka | Mayer, Ruth

American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 298

2019

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Abstract

From the ‘early modern’ period to the present moment, the United States has consistently been associated with notions of modernization and modernity. Nevertheless, ideas of what is considered modern change over time, in accordance with a respective historical context’s understanding of the ‘old’ or ‘ancient.’ And although any period in US history is (self-)stylized as modern, the discourse of modernity culminates particularly at the beginning of the twentieth century, when fundamental categories and concepts of spatial, temporal, and moral orientation were redefined. This volume combines two lines of inquiry: it brings together new assessments of turn-of-the-century modernity in diverse formats such as literature, film, and stage performances and it offers investigations of modernity and modernization in other eras and media, including depression-era documentaries, the 1940 and 1964 World’s Fairs, twenty-first-century computer games, and augmented reality art projects.

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Titel 3
Imprint 4
Contents 5
ILKA BRASCH & RUTHMAYER: Introduction: Modernities and Modernization in North America 9
Section I: Conceptualizing Modernities 23
ANITA PATTERSON: Eliot, Emerson, and Transpacific Modernism 23
BIRGIT CAPELLE: Generating Newness in the Flow of Immediacy: Stein, Kerouac, and the „Tao“ of Modernist Writing 45
ULLA HASELSTEIN: “The American Thing.” Gertrude Stein on Seriality and Singularity 65
HEIKE SCHAEFER: Reading and Teaching Avant-garde Modernist Literature from a Comparative Media Perspective 85
FLORIAN SEDLMEIER: Howells and the Properties of Modern Literature 101
HERWIG FRIEDL: American Modernist Thinking: The Frontier as Absolute Metaphor 119
Section II: Performed Modernities 137
LAURA HORAK: Modernity, Sexuality, Cinema: Early Twentieth Century Transformations 137
JOHANNA HEIL: Between Organic Movement and Technique: Practicing Self-Care and Forging Subjectivities in American Modern Dance 163
BIRGIT BAURIDL: Zora Neale Hurston’s Cultural Performance and the Politics of Play and Place in the New York Narratives 187
ASTRID M. FELLNER: Another Map, Another Modernity: Living Borders and Peripheral Modernity in Guillermo Verdecchia’s „Fronteras Americanas“ 207
FLORIAN WEINZIERL: Walking the Wilde Walk: Queer Temporality and Haunting in the Musical „A Man of No Importance“ 225
Section III: Mapping Modernities 249
SASCHA KLEIN: Subversions and Intensifications of Race, Class, and Gender Divisions on the Post-Apocalyptic Urban Frontier in the Early- Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Short Story 249
CONNOR PITETTI: “All of These Resources Will Be Exploited in Due Time”: Technology, Ecology, and Sustainable Energy in the Work of Hugo Gernsback 271
MARTIN HOLTZ: The Relationship between Nature and Technology in Three New Deal Documentaries: „The Plow that Broke the Plains, The River“, and „The City“ 289
FLORIAN GROß: The Future That Was Lost: Newness, Seriality, and the 1939/1940 and 1964/1965 New York World’s Fairs 307
TORSTEN KATHKE: Futures Imperfect: Cognate Temporalities and Productive Dystopias in US Non-Fiction Bestsellers 331
Section IV: 21-Century Modernities 353
SIMON SCHLEUSENER: Post-Truth Politics: The New Right and the Postmodern Legacy 353
DENNIS BÜSCHER-ULBRICH: No Future for Nobody?: Zombie Neoliberalism and the Real of Capital 371
CHRISTIAN GUESE: Technology vs. Unions? A Critical Analysis of Technology’s Role in Power Relations in the Trucking Sector 393
DIANA WAGNER: “A Spectacle of Simulacra”: Interveillance and the Ambiguities of Mediatization in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels 409
SÖREN SCHOPPMEIER: Breaking the Habitual: „Pony Island“ as Countergaming 427
INGRID GESSNER: Digital Modernities: Augmented Reality Art and the Archives of Tomorrow 449
Backcover 472