Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female

by Geetha Ramanathan

Book Overview

This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138656623
• ISBN13: 9781138656628
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"