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Modernism Beyond the Canon

Modernism Beyond the Canon Women Writers, Global Currents, and Local Value

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Modernism Beyond the Canon

Women Writers, Global Currents, and Local Value

Deborah Pike | Ann Vickery

Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century

Modernist navigations with modernity are diverse and culturally nuanced. Taking students and researchers beyond the narrow canon of 'great modernists', Modernism Beyond the Canon is an essential introduction to approaching the linguistic breadth, mobility, and regionalism of modernist women writers across the world. It challenges aesthetic, national, and gendered constructions of canonicity and considers the role and limits of translation in approaching global modernisms. It provides a valuable guide to the complexity and contradictions in the careers and work of modernist women writers.

Modernism Beyond the Canon includes entries on modernist fiction writers, poets, journalists, critics, editors and publishers from:

· South-West Asia and North Africa
· India, China, Japan, and Korea
· Australia and New Zealand
· West Africa
· The Caribbean
· The Jewish diaspora
· The United Kingdom, Europe and the Republic of Ireland
· Scandinavia
. Central and South America
. Canada and the United States of America

The book includes alternative table of contents organising entries alphabetically, by region and by profession as well as a mapping of the movements of modernist women writers and their networks. It also provides further reading guides at the end of each entry to support deeper research.

Ann Vickery is Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University, Australia. She is author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (2000) and Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (2007), co-author of The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (2009), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry (2024), and co-editor of The Cambridge History to Australian Poetry (2025).
Deborah Pike is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Her previous books include The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald (2017).


Publication Date: 18 March 2027
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-13: 9781350113039
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 320
Weight (oz): 16.0

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