Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why geography?; Reintroducing modernism; Modernism and its contexts: modernity, globalization and the postcolonial; Literal and metaphorical geographies; 1 Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world; Alternative modernities; Modernism at large; Transnational literatures; Revisiting high/low; High/low in a transnational context; Transnational suggestions; Legacies of modernism; Notes; 2 Russia and the invention of the modernist intelligentsia; The death of Tolstoy; The critical attitude; Russian literature in England
The invention of the intelligentsiaNotes; 3 'Mad after foreign notions'; Notes; 4 Modernism, Africa and the myth of continents; The portable continent; Geographies of African modernity: King Njoya's map of Bamum; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Spatial stories; 'When the geography was fixed'1; Memoranda and logs; Maps and tours; Epic geography; Conclusion; Notes; 6 The interior; Notes; 7 'A Savage from the Cannibal islands'; Notes; 8 Voyages by teashop; Notes; 9 The case of Marcel Duchamp; Genius of the place; Transformations; The readymade and modern Paris; A case for travellers: Box in a Valise
Broken landscapes: challenges to geographyNote; 10 'A sense, through the eyes, of embracing possession' (Henry James); King-size pictures; Note; 11 Memory, geography, identity; 12 'Architecture or revolution'?; Notes; 13 Rem Koolhaas; City project; Note; 14 Flannery; Flânerie and cinema; Television and telephony; Internet and installation; Coda; References; Index
