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Peripheralizing Modernity: Global Modernism and Uneven Development.
Author(s) -
Young Paul
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12005
Subject(s) - modernity , modernism (music) , agency (philosophy) , aesthetics , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , social science
This essay explores how global modernism might be understood to reveal the agency of the periphery in the creation of modernity, thus countering Eurocentric understandings of global history and exposing to view the exploitation, violence and uneven development that characterizes the modern world.