Book contents
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Methodologies
- Part II Forms, Genre, and Media
- Part III Situating US Modernism
- 25 War
- 26 Modernism, Personality, and the Racialized State
- 27 Modernism of the Streets
- 28 Late Modernism
- 29 Transnational Circuits and Homemade Machines
- 30 The American Metropolis
- 31 Hemispheric Modernisms, Imperial Modernisms
- 32 Southern Modernism
- 33 Transpacific Modernism
- 34 Indigenous Modernism
- 35 Sketching the Terrain of African American Modernism
- 36 The New Woman and American Modernism
- 37 Celebrity and American Modernism
- Select Bibliography
- Index
27 - Modernism of the Streets
How the Left Made a Culture from Below
from Part III - Situating US Modernism
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Methodologies
- Part II Forms, Genre, and Media
- Part III Situating US Modernism
- 25 War
- 26 Modernism, Personality, and the Racialized State
- 27 Modernism of the Streets
- 28 Late Modernism
- 29 Transnational Circuits and Homemade Machines
- 30 The American Metropolis
- 31 Hemispheric Modernisms, Imperial Modernisms
- 32 Southern Modernism
- 33 Transpacific Modernism
- 34 Indigenous Modernism
- 35 Sketching the Terrain of African American Modernism
- 36 The New Woman and American Modernism
- 37 Celebrity and American Modernism
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter reconsiders modernism as a cultural movement from below generated by the rise of a new left-wing, working-class, and radical gathering of writers inspired by world events from the Russian Revolution to the surge of trade unionism. The chapter puts into conversation scholarship on radical American writing with writings on African American and feminist modernisms. The chapter considers what was unique about the form and content of modernist experiment by writers with openly progressive and radical political commitments.
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- The Cambridge History of American Modernism , pp. 465 - 477Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023