Sonita Sarker

Bio

Sonita Sarker has authored many essays on modernism.  Her monograph, Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/native (Oxford University Press) was published recently.  She is currently writing a monograph on Whiteness in post/modernist literature as well as editing a volume on the subject.  She is Professor in the WGSS and English Departments at Macalester College which is on the lands of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Dakota peoples, in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Contributions

Absence and Containment: English-Language Transnational Literary Modernist Studies Today

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New. Now. Motion. Speed. Acceleration. Expansion. Pause. Renew. Now, again. In the early twentieth century, there is no such thing as transnational literary modernism. Yet, in the early twenty-first century, there is transnational modernist studies. Interpellated as an area of analytical production, English-language transnational modernist literary studies is recent, and has expanded with great speed even in that short span. In both newness and acceleration, the field carries the very elements...

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global modernism transnational