Regional Modernism: A Reintroduction

Herring, Scott

doi:10.1353/mfs.0.1588

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“…Critics such as Jed Esty (2004), David James (2009) and Alexandra Harris (2010) have shown that, particularly in England during the interwar and post-World War II period, modernist writers increasingly focused on local landscapes and customs. This finding challenges the traditional understanding of modernism as a move away from the provinces in favour of the metropolis (Herring 2009: 3). The term ‘regional modernisms’ has been coined to recognise the many instances when modernist texts express an attachment to the regional scale (Herring 2009; Alexander and Moran 2013).…”

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“…This finding challenges the traditional understanding of modernism as a move away from the provinces in favour of the metropolis (Herring 2009: 3). The term ‘regional modernisms’ has been coined to recognise the many instances when modernist texts express an attachment to the regional scale (Herring 2009; Alexander and Moran 2013). Because of their experimental aesthetics, writers of regional modernisms transform the representation of local space, casting ‘regional character and identity in more flexible, porous, or relational forms’ (Alexander and Moran 2013: 2).…”

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'[W]hen the highway catches up with us'

Cooper

2016

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Eleanor Dark's last published novel, Lantana Lane (published 1959), is not usually included in accounts of Australian modernism. The novel's strong criticisms of modernity, its regional focus and the Cold War context complicate its inclusion as a modernist text. However, revised understandings of modernism generated in the past few decades of scholarship allow for a reinvestigation of Dark's novel as a response to the conditions of late modernity. In particular, Dark explores the pressures exerted on local space by modern capitalism in a period of post-war reconstruction, showing how the national and global scales encroach upon and threaten to annihilate local particularity. Through drawing on a number of broadly modernist practices, including those of entanglement, suspension, metageography and primitivism, Dark pushes back against modernity's narratives of progress and attempts to recover space for the literary and the small scale. Lantana Lane demonstrates how ‘regional modernisms’ written from ‘peripheral’ locations can draw attention to the uneven distribution of modernity within national and global space, and offer alternative — if provisional — sites of attachment.

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'[W]hen the highway catches up with us'

Cooper

2016

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“…Artikkelini osallistuu näihin debatteihin Suomessa tuotetun modernismin näkökulmasta. Tarkoituksena on luoda katsaus regionalistiseen modernismiin (Fetterley & Pryse 2003, Duvall 2006, Herring 2009) ja geomodernismiin (Doyle & Winkiel 2005) perustuvaan teoreettiseen kenttään, jolla suomalainen modernismi voidaan nostaa tutkimuskohteeksi muiden kielialueiden modernismien rinnalle kansainvälisessä kontekstissa unohtamatta kuitenkaan suomalaisen modernismin omintakeisuutta ja erityispiirteitä. Geomodernismin ideana on tarkastella modernismeja transnationaalisina ilmiöinä, joissa kuitenkin painottuu jokaisen lokaation oma kehityskulku ilman, että näitä modernismin ilmentymiä täytyisi hier arkkisesti järjestää esimerkiksi alkuperäisiin ja toissijaisiin tai varhaisiin ja myöhäisiin modernismeihin.…”

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2022

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“…18 This, aside from the registering of regional variations on modernity and modernism, is what Scott Herring has termed 'regional modernism' -a modernism at once stylistically or affectively avantgarde and yet grounded in a specific sense of place, generally meaningful. 19 Earls' comment on the relevance of the Bjelke-Petersen era to The Delinquents sums up this potential convergence of regional and temporal variation.…”

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Sharon Faylene and the woman from the welfare

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2016

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Criena Rohan's The Delinquents (1962) has always had a cult appeal — in 1989 it was made into a movie, starring Kylie Minogue as Lola and an unknown American as Brownie — and was recently reissued as a Text Classic. A short novel written by a writer who did not have a long career, and published between more commonly scrutinised periods of Australian fiction, The Delinquents is still, however, liminal. The Delinquents is very much a novel of rebellion and subversion, as its teenage protagonists, Brownie Hansen and Lola Lovell, pursue their love over the opposition of both sets of parents the police, the bourgeois consensus and everybody who is not them. By the fiery smoldering of its passion, though, their love sustains them and they emerge at the end, buffeted but united and resilient. This article argues that Rohan's book represents a Queensland iteration of a ‘regional modernism’.

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Regional Modernism: A Reintroduction

Cited by 22 publications

References 26 publications

'[W]hen the highway catches up with us'

'[W]hen the highway catches up with us'

Joutsen / Svanen 2017–2018

Sharon Faylene and the woman from the welfare

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