Mediterranean Modernism

This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial.

AdamJ. Goldwyn is Assistant Professor of English at North Dakota State University,USA, where he specializes in comparative approaches to medieval and modernEuropean and Mediterranean literature. He recently edited a study of thepost-medieval reception of Classical mythology entitled The Trojan Wars and the Making of the Modern World.
RenéeM. Silverman is Associate Professor of Spanish at Florida InternationalUniversity, USA. She is a specialist in poetry and Avant-Garde/Modernism Studies.She is the author of Mapping the Landscape, Remapping the Text: SpanishPoetry from Antonio Machado's Campos de Castilla to the FirstAvant-Garde (1909-1925), and the editor of The Popular Avant-Garde.

.Introduction: Fernand Braudel and the Invention of a Modernist's Mediterranean Adam J. Goldwyn and Renée M. Silverman.- Part I: Personal Reflections on the Multi-Cultural Mediterranean.- 1 Mafarka Before Being a Futurist: The Intimate Egypt in the Writings of F.T. Marinetti Nadine Makram Wassef.- 2 Marginal Modernists: Claude McKay, Panait Istrati, and the "Minor Mediterranean" Charles Sabatos.- 3 Mediterranean Crossroads: the Spanish University Cruise, 1933Juan Herrero-Senés.- 4 Catalan Political Modernism: The Case of Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga (1873-1941) and Modernism on the Periphery David W. Bird.- 5 Geopoetics and Historical Modernism: Gertrude Stein, Laura Riding and Robert Graves in Mallorca, 1912-1936 Anett Jessop.- 6 A Scent of Jasmine from the Sea? Representations of Tunis in Villa Jasmin by Férid Boughedir and Le chant des mariées by Karin Albou Federica Frediani.- Part II: Communal Reflections of the Postcolonial Mediterranean.- 7 Naming Surreally: Lautréamont's Chants de Maldoror and Nikos Engonopoulos's worship of the "Greek" Vasiliki Dimoula.- 8 Sharing the Stage in Istanbul: the Multi-ethnic Beginnings of Ottoman Theatre Defne Çizakça.- 9 From Autarky to "Barbarian" Cosmopolitanism: The Early Avant-Garde Movements in Slovenia and Croatia Marijan Dovic.- 10 Modernism, Nationalism, Albanianism: Geographic Poetry and Poetic Geography in the Albanian and Kosovar Independence Movements Adam J. Goldwyn.- 11 Gender Dystopia on the Kibbutz: From Plato to Marx Rob Baum .- 12 Flâneurs in The Orient: The Colonial Maghrib and The Origins of the French Modernist Tradition Gavin Murray-Miller .- 13 The Alexandria Biennale and Egypt's Shifting Mediterranean Dina Ramadan.