Wanderings of Modernism

Yasna Bozhkova is Associate Professor of American Literature at Université Paris Nanterre. Her research focuses on intertextual, intermedial and intercultural poetics from transatlantic modernism to the present. Her first monograph, titled Between Worlds: Mina Loy’s Aesthetic Itineraries, was published in 2022 by Clemson University Press. She is also the co-editor of several special issues, including “African American Voices from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present: Establishing/Abolishing Authority” (French Review of American Studies) and “‘The Contour of an Electric Spirit’: Revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century” (Feminist Modernist Studies). She has published articles and book chapters on modernist and contemporary poetry and fiction, as well as avant-garde experimentation across the arts. She is a board member of the Société d’études modernistes and of the MSA. Diane Drouin is a Teaching Fellow (PRAG) at Sorbonne Université. Her research focuses on the interactions between transatlantic modernism and the European avant-gardes, analyzing more specifically the work of women writers and artists, in a feminist and intermedial perspective. She has published several articles and book chapters on Mina Loy and she is the co-editor of a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies entitled “‘The Contour of an Electric Spirit’: Revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century.” Olivier Hercend is a senior lecturer at Université Paris Nanterre. His most recent publications include a monograph: Le modernisme au défi de la lecture: Joyce, Woolf, T.S. Eliot (Classiques Garnier) as well as articles and book chapters in French and English, on modernism and literary theory, especially reader-response theory, hermeneutics and post-structuralism. He is also a novelist and dramatist.

• IntroductionPart I - Wandering as a Modality of the Modern WorldChapter 1 - Tramps, Bums and Hobos, or the Wanderings of Low Modernism Benoît TadiéChapter 2 - “Moving, Almost Unwalking”: Nomadic Turns and Postwar Returns in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and The Antiphon Pavlina RadiaChapter 3 - Claude McKay’s “Magic Pilgrimages” Louise KaneChapter 4 - Poste-restante: the Dislocative Mode of Katherine Mansfield’s Correspondence Claire DavisonPart II - Coming to Grips with ErrancyChapter 5 - Remodeling the Modernist Cities: The Migrant Aesthetics of Jean Rhys Juliana LopoukhineChapter 6 - “It was indeed an absurd expedition”: Fantastic and Provocative Rewritings of the Grand Tour as Outlets in E.M. Forster’s Work Julie ChevauxChapter 7 - Virginia Woolf’s Post-Victorian Nostos: The Poetics of Revenance in To the Lighthouse Marie LanielPart III - Elaborating a Poetics and Politics of WanderingChapter 8 - The Politics of Displacement in Joyce’s Writing: The View from the Periphery Corentin JégouChapter 9 - Wandering as an Act of Political Resistance in William Carlos Williams’s Works Samantha LemeunierChapter 10 - The Wandering Poetics of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett: Listening (and Looking) Without Localizing Adrienne JanusChapter 11 - The Modernity of Joyce’s Exiles Jean-Michel Rabaté