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"A wide-ranging collection that allows the mask—as artifact, metaphor, theatrical costume, fetish, strategy for self-concealment, and treasured cultural object—to clarify modernity’s relationship to history."--Carrie J. Preston, author of Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance "Covering an impressive range of geographies, cultures, and time periods, these carefully researched essays explore the fascinating role of masks and masking in mediating the relationship between tradition and modernity in both art and literature."--Paul Jay, author of The Humanities “Crisis” and the Future of Literary Studies

Behind the Masks of Modernism reconsiders the meaning of "modernism" by taking an interdisciplinary approach and stretching beyond the Western modernist canon and the literary scope of the field. The essays in this diverse collection explore numerous regional, national, and transnational expressions of modernity through art, history, architecture, drama, literature, and cultural studies around the globe. Masks--both literal and metaphorical--play a role in each of these artistic ventures, from Brazilian music to Chinese film and Russian poetry to Nigerian masquerade performance.

The contributors show how artists and writers produce their works in moments of emerging modernity, aesthetic sensibility, and deep societal transformations caused by modern transnational forces. Using the mask as a thematic focus, the volume explores the dialogue created through regional modernisms, emphasizes the local in describing universal tropes of masks and masking, and challenges popular assumptions about what modernism looks like and what modernity is.

Table of Contents

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Figures
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. ix
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  1. Introduction
  2. Andrew Reynolds and Bonnie Roos
  3. pp. 1-23
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  1. 1. Rabindranath Tagore’s Mysterious Faces and India’s Encounter with Modernism
  2. Aida Yuen Wong
  3. pp. 24-54
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  1. 2. A Pedagogy for Modernity: Brazilian Modernism and Heitor Villa-Lobos Revisited
  2. Sandro R. Barros
  3. pp. 55-71
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  1. 3. Unmasking the Journalistic Aesthetics of Spanish American Modernismo
  2. Andrew Reynolds
  3. pp. 72-92
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  1. 4. From Pre-Columbian Masks to the Basque Cromlech: The Art of Unconcealment through Jorge Oteiza
  2. Elixabete Ansa Goicoechea
  3. pp. 93-114
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  1. 5. The “Colder Artifice”: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, and the Mask of Blackness
  2. Steven A. Nardi
  3. pp. 115-134
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  1. 6. The Emotion as Such: Un/Masking the Poet in Mayakovsky’s Work
  2. Connor Doak
  3. pp. 135-157
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  1. 7. Complicity: New Zealand’s Modernization and the Postcolonial Trickster of Keri Hulme’s The Bone People
  2. Bonnie Roos
  3. pp. 158-183
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  1. 8. Nyoro Masquerade as a Hunt for Modernity: A View from a West African City
  2. Jordan A. Fenton
  3. pp. 184-205
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  1. 9. Roots Reconfigured: Contemporary Chinese Masks in the Flux of Modernity
  2. Sylvie Beaud
  3. pp. 206-226
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  1. Afterword: The Slow Burn of Modernity
  2. Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
  3. pp. 227-250
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 251-266
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 267-268
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 269-294
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