Shanghai modern : the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945 / by Lee, Leo Ou-fan

Table of Contents: “…Remapping Shanghai ; The construction of modernity in print culture ; The urban milieu of Shanghai cinema ; Textual transactions: discovering literary modernism through books and journals -- The modern literary imagination: writers and texts. …”

Jewish women and their salons : the power of conversation /

Table of Contents: “…Bilski and Emily Braun -- A dream of living together : Jewish women in Berlin around 1800 / Barbara Hahn -- Music, femininity, and Jewish identity : The tradition and legacy of the salon / Leon Botstein -- The salon and literary modernism : Proust, Wilde, Stein / Lucia Re -- Biographies / Shira Brisman.…”

India and the British empire /

Table of Contents: “…Peers -- The Indian economy and th British Empire / David Washbrook -- Knowledge formation in colonial India / Norbert Peabody -- Colonialism and social identities in flux : class, caste, and religious community / Rosalind O'Hanlon -- Nationalisms in India / Sumit Sarkar -- Law, authority, and colonial rule / Sandra den Otter -- Networks of knowledge : science and medicine in early colonial India, c. 1750-1820 / mark Harrison -- Environment and ecology under British rule / Mahesh Rangarajan -- The material and visual culture of British India / Christopher Pinney -- Literary modernity in South Asia / Javed Majeed -- Gendering of public and private selves in colonial times / Tanika Sarkar -- The Desi diaspora : politics, protest, and nationalism / Vijay Prashad -- The political legacy of colonialism in South Asia / Nandini Gooptu.…”
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Graphic migrations : precarity and gender in India and the diaspora / by Daiya, Kavita, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Drawing Embodied Secularism: Religion and Pedagogical Nationalism in Print Culture -- Gender, Displacement, and Ecologies of Loss in Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Graphic Anthology This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition -- Photojournalism and Bearing Witness in Margaret Bourke-White's Photography -- Chapter 2: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Witnessing: Refugees, Literary Modernism, and the American Diaspora -- Disability, Patriarchal Violence, and Witnessing in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India -- Migration, Reproductive Femininity, and Citizenship in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers -- Citizenship and Expulsions in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness -- Media, Violence, and Reparations in the Conflict Zone -- Chapter 3: Melodrama, Community, and Diasporas in Popular Hindi and Accented Cinema. …”
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Rethinking Japanese modernism /

Table of Contents: “…Reinterpreting StrindbergAuthenticity in Akutagawa; Cultural and Literary Contexts; MODERNISM AND ITS ENDINGS: KAJII MOTOJIRO AS TRANSITIONAL WRITER; Kajii in Context; Narrating the Unknowable; SHIINA RINZO: A JAPANESE LITERARY RESPONSE TO THE 'OVERCOMING MODERNITY' SYMPOSIUM; 'Overcoming Modernity': The Literary Outcomes; Shiina Rinzo: Responding to the Challenge; A Cry for Freedom; Conclusion; References; PART THREE: MODERNISM IN PREWAR JAPANESE POETRY AND MUSIC; MODERNISM IN PREWAR JAPANESE POETRY; What Was Literary Modernism?; Tanka Wars: 1920-1930…”
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