Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Fernand Braudel and the Invention of a Modernist’s Mediterranean....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Mafarka Before Being a Futurist: The Intimate Egypt in the Writings of F.T. Marinetti....Pages 29-50
Marginal Modernists: Claude McKay, Panait Istrati, and the “Minor Mediterranean”....Pages 51-72
Mediterranean Crossroads: The Spanish University Cruise, 1933....Pages 73-96
Catalan Political Modernism: The Case of Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga (1873–1941) and Modernism on the Periphery....Pages 97-122
Geopoetics and Historical Modernism: Gertrude Stein, Laura Riding, and Robert Graves in Mallorca, 1912–1936....Pages 123-148
A Scent of Jasmine from the Sea: Representations of Tunis in Villa Jasmin by Férid Boughedir and Le chant des mariées by Karin Albou....Pages 149-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Naming Surreally: Lautréamont’s Chants de Maldoror and Nikos Engonopoulos’s Worship of the “Greek”....Pages 171-195
Sharing the Stage in Istanbul: The Multi-ethnic Beginnings of Ottoman Theatre....Pages 197-232
From Autarky to “Barbarian” Cosmopolitanism: The Early Avant-Garde Movements in Slovenia and Croatia....Pages 233-250
Modernism, Nationalism, Albanianism: Geographic Poetry and Poetic Geography in the Albanian and Kosovar Independence Movements....Pages 251-281
Gender Dystopia on the Kibbutz: From Plato to Marx....Pages 283-315
Flâneurs in the Orient: The Colonial Maghrib and the Origins of the French Modernist Tradition....Pages 317-342
The Alexandria Biennale and Egypt’s Shifting Mediterranean....Pages 343-361
Back Matter....Pages 363-373