C. J. W.-L. Wee
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098596
- eISBN:
- 9789882207509
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098596.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter discusses how Singaporean theatre has dealt with the gap between the older utopia of autonomous creation that cultural and artistic modernism stood for and the reality of suppression of ...
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This chapter discusses how Singaporean theatre has dealt with the gap between the older utopia of autonomous creation that cultural and artistic modernism stood for and the reality of suppression of the symbolic realm in the city-state. During the 1980s, the theatre was the most dynamic contemporary art that had emerged. Against the virtual impossibility of creating a new and different order, the late playwright and intellectual Kuo Pao Kun and the intercultural director Ong Ken Sen toiled to extend cultural memory against the threat of a culturally fragmenting economic development through envisioning a fractured Singapore-Asian humanism that challenged the state's version of Asia. These two Asian theatre practitioners attempted a counter-reterritorialization and re-imagining of the entity of Asia together with the city-state's place within it.Less
This chapter discusses how Singaporean theatre has dealt with the gap between the older utopia of autonomous creation that cultural and artistic modernism stood for and the reality of suppression of the symbolic realm in the city-state. During the 1980s, the theatre was the most dynamic contemporary art that had emerged. Against the virtual impossibility of creating a new and different order, the late playwright and intellectual Kuo Pao Kun and the intercultural director Ong Ken Sen toiled to extend cultural memory against the threat of a culturally fragmenting economic development through envisioning a fractured Singapore-Asian humanism that challenged the state's version of Asia. These two Asian theatre practitioners attempted a counter-reterritorialization and re-imagining of the entity of Asia together with the city-state's place within it.
Lindon Barrett
Justin A. Joyce, Dwight A. Mcbride, and John Carlos Rowe (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038006
- eISBN:
- 9780252095290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038006.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter focuses on the dispute between two important figures of the Harlem Renaissance: George Schuyler and Langston Hughes. Schuyler's critique of the African American avant-garde in his essay ...
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This chapter focuses on the dispute between two important figures of the Harlem Renaissance: George Schuyler and Langston Hughes. Schuyler's critique of the African American avant-garde in his essay “The Negro-Art Hokum” (1926) and Hughes's response in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926) provide a focus point to understand how African American artists and intellectuals imagined their relationship both to Western modernization and avant-garde cultural modernism. This chapter stands as a separate essay from Barrett's surviving manuscript, as it appears to be intended for a different publication; its inclusion here is meant to supplement discussion from the previous chapters, although Schuyler and Hughes did not tackle the gender and sexuality aspects of Barrett's arguments so far posited in this book.Less
This chapter focuses on the dispute between two important figures of the Harlem Renaissance: George Schuyler and Langston Hughes. Schuyler's critique of the African American avant-garde in his essay “The Negro-Art Hokum” (1926) and Hughes's response in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926) provide a focus point to understand how African American artists and intellectuals imagined their relationship both to Western modernization and avant-garde cultural modernism. This chapter stands as a separate essay from Barrett's surviving manuscript, as it appears to be intended for a different publication; its inclusion here is meant to supplement discussion from the previous chapters, although Schuyler and Hughes did not tackle the gender and sexuality aspects of Barrett's arguments so far posited in this book.
Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199545810
- eISBN:
- 9780191803475
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199545810.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
The second of three volumes charting the history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this book offers a study of the wide and varied range of ‘little magazines’ which ...
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The second of three volumes charting the history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this book offers a study of the wide and varied range of ‘little magazines’ which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and cultural modernism. This book examines the role of periodicals in the United States and Canada. Over 120 magazines are discussed. The chapters are organised into thirteen sections, each with a contextual introduction, and they consider key themes in the landscape of North American modernism such as: ‘free verse’, drama and criticism, regionalism, exiles in Europe, the Harlem Renaissance, and radical politics. In incisive critical chapters we learn of familiar ‘little magazines’ such as Poetry, Others, transition, and The Little Review, as well as less well-known magazines such as Rogue, Palms, Harlem, and The Modern Quarterly. Of particular interest is the placing of ‘little magazines’ alongside pulps, slicks, and middlebrow magazines, demonstrating the rich and varied periodical field that constituted modernism in the United States and Canada.Less
The second of three volumes charting the history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this book offers a study of the wide and varied range of ‘little magazines’ which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and cultural modernism. This book examines the role of periodicals in the United States and Canada. Over 120 magazines are discussed. The chapters are organised into thirteen sections, each with a contextual introduction, and they consider key themes in the landscape of North American modernism such as: ‘free verse’, drama and criticism, regionalism, exiles in Europe, the Harlem Renaissance, and radical politics. In incisive critical chapters we learn of familiar ‘little magazines’ such as Poetry, Others, transition, and The Little Review, as well as less well-known magazines such as Rogue, Palms, Harlem, and The Modern Quarterly. Of particular interest is the placing of ‘little magazines’ alongside pulps, slicks, and middlebrow magazines, demonstrating the rich and varied periodical field that constituted modernism in the United States and Canada.
