Global Modernism(s)

Approaches to trans-local / trans-cultural / trans-civilizational dimension of Modernist movements CALL FOR PAPERS
The familiar vision of Fernando Pessoa at his table in Caf Martinho, as well as the Dublin of James Joyce or the Berlin of Else as!er"#ch$ler, su%%est a locali&ed understandin% of Modernism' #till, the %ist of the Pessoan literary endeavor consists in an attem(t of radical de" locali&ation of lan%ua%e and ima%ination in order to transcend the limitations of )(lacedness'* The same could be said about Bruno #chul& in Drohobyc& in the eastern borderlands of Poland' + substantial (art of Modernist writin%s may be inter(reted as a res(onse to the frustration of )bein% there'* ,o wonder, thus, Modernism-s %reatest achievements may be synthesi&ed as voices that (rivile%e the mar%ins. /reland rather than En%land, Barcelona rather than Madrid, without for%ettin% the Modernist s(aces in atin +merica, Eastern Euro(e, +sia, and +rabic world' Modernist ca(itals are many, and their location is often far from obvious' +s Melvin B' Tolson wrote in his Harlem Gallery, )the listenin% ear can hear 0 amon% the moderns, blue 0 tomtoms of Benin'* #uch hidden roots of Modernism entwine the whole (lanet' + (ossible a((roach to 1lobal Modernism2s3 would be, thus, to attem(t a carto%ra(hy of connections that detach themselves from the current %eo%ra(hy and mer%e into an alternative to(olo%y of the world in which une4(ected dimensions emer%e (er(endicularly to the s(acetime of everyday e4(erience' The collection of artifacts (reserved at the wall of +ndr Breton-s cabinet, and similar facts from the cultural history of the avant"%arde movements, should be thus inter(reted beyond the conce(t of colonial museum as it mar!s a lon%in% that transcends the usually admitted understandin% of the colonial cate%ori&ations' The Modernist esthetic revolution coincides or (erha(s brin%s about the 1olden +%e of anthro(olo%y and ethnolo%y' Conse5uently, Malinows!i, Eliade, and 6arbur% can be read in the conte4t of the Modernist as(iration of transcendin% not only one-s own local and cultural (ositionin%, but also the finitude of a civili&ation' The trans"cultural and trans"civili&ational (otential of Modernism lies at the roots of our (resent %lobali&ed condition7 on the other hand, internal contradictions of Modernism mar! the limitations of our (resent consciousness' This is the reason why it is im(ortant to reinter(ret Modernism from a (lanetary (ers(ective' The Modernist literature enters the %lobal ways of circulation and becomes the ob8ect of de"locali&ed readin%s' 9ur aim in this issue is to %ather such readin%s and foster the debate on how to a((roach Modernism understood not only as a transnational, but also a trans"cultural and a trans"civili&ational movement'

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