Batendo palmas a uma só mão: Colonialismo, pós-colonialismo e as fronteiras espácio-temporais do modernismo
The essay challenges the prevailing view that the West invented modernity and modernism, while the rest imitated the West in derivative forms. It considers the cityscapes of Shanghai and Manhattan to upset common equations of modernization with Westernization and draws on comparative world history a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
2006-06-01
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| Series: | Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/934 |
| Summary: | The essay challenges the prevailing view that the West invented modernity and modernism, while the rest imitated the West in derivative forms. It considers the cityscapes of Shanghai and Manhattan to upset common equations of modernization with Westernization and draws on comparative world history and postcolonial studies to offer new ways of thinking about the spatio/temporal boundaries of modernity/modernism. Cassatt’s translations of Japanese woodblock prints, Picasso’s adaptations of African art, and the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih’s rewriting of Conrad are juxtaposed to demonstrate transcontinental cultural flows in the formation of different modernisms. |
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| ISSN: | 0254-1106 2182-7435 |