Modernities and Modernization in North Americaedited by Ilka Brasch, Ruth Mayer.

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Cover; Titel; Imprint; Contents; ILKA BRASCH and RUTHMAYER: Introduction: Modernities and Modernization in North America; Section I: Conceptualizing Modernities; ANITA PATTERSON: Eliot, Emerson, and Transpacific Modernism; BIRGIT CAPELLE: Generating Newness in the Flow of Immediacy: Stein, Kerouac, and the "Tao" of Modernist Writing; ULLA HASELSTEIN: "The American Thing." Gertrude Stein on Seriality and Singularity; HEIKE SCHAEFER: Reading and Teaching Avant-garde Modernist Literature from a Comparative Media Perspective; FLORIAN SEDLMEIER: Howells and the Properties of Modern Literature

HERWIG FRIEDL: American Modernist Thinking: The Frontier as Absolute MetaphorSection II: Performed Modernities; LAURA HORAK: Modernity, Sexuality, Cinema: Early Twentieth Century Transformations; JOHANNA HEIL: Between Organic Movement and Technique: Practicing Self-Care and Forging Subjectivities in American Modern Dance; BIRGIT BAURIDL: Zora Neale Hurston's Cultural Performance and the Politics of Play and Place in the New York Narratives; ASTRID M. FELLNER: Another Map, Another Modernity: Living Borders and Peripheral Modernity in Guillermo Verdecchia's "Fronteras Americanas"

FLORIAN WEINZIERL: Walking the Wilde Walk: Queer Temporality and Haunting in the Musical "A Man of No Importance"Section III: Mapping Modernities; SASCHA KLEIN: Subversions and Intensifications of Race, Class, and Gender Divisions on the Post-Apocalyptic Urban Frontier in the Early- Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Short Story; CONNOR PITETTI: "All of These Resources Will Be Exploited in Due Time": Technology, Ecology, and Sustainable Energy in the Work of Hugo Gernsback

MARTIN HOLTZ: The Relationship between Nature and Technology in Three New Deal Documentaries: "The Plow that Broke the Plains, The River", and "The City"FLORIAN GROß: The Future That Was Lost: Newness, Seriality, and the 1939/1940 and 1964/1965 New York World's Fairs; TORSTEN KATHKE: Futures Imperfect: Cognate Temporalities and Productive Dystopias in US Non-Fiction Bestsellers; Section IV: 21-Century Modernities; SIMON SCHLEUSENER: Post-Truth Politics: The New Right and the Postmodern Legacy; DENNIS BÜSCHER-ULBRICH: No Future for Nobody?: Zombie Neoliberalism and the Real of Capital

CHRISTIAN GUESE: Technology vs. Unions? A Critical Analysis of Technology's Role in Power Relations in the Trucking SectorDIANA WAGNER: "A Spectacle of Simulacra": Interveillance and the Ambiguities of Mediatization in Siri Hustvedt's Novels; SOREN SCHOPPMEIER: Breaking the Habitual: "Pony Island" as Countergaming; INGRID GESSNER: Digital Modernities: Augmented Reality Art and the Archives of Tomorrow; Backcover

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"From the 'early modern' period to the present moment, the United States has consistently been associated with notions of modernization and modernity. Nevertheless, ideas of what is considered modern change over time, in accordance with a respective historical context's understanding of the 'old' or 'ancient'. And although any period in US history is (self-)stylized as modern, the discourse of modernity culminates particularly at the beginning of the twentieth century, when fundamental categories of spatial, temporal, and moral orientation were redefined. This volume combines two lines of inquiry: it brings together new assessments of turn-of-the-century modernity in diverse formats such as literature, film, and stage performances and it offers investigations of modernity and modernization in other eras and media, including depression-era documentaries, the 1940 and 1964 World's Fairs, twenty-first-century computer games, and augmented reality art projects." --

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