"Scalability"

Global modernism is almost always talked about in terms of expansion: more archives, more languages, longer time frames, wider geographies. This article refines the conversation around expansion by discussing the growth of modernist studies in terms of scalability. It clarifies the methods by which we might continue to study modernism globally without assimilating non-European literature to Euopean paradigms. It also considers what literary study under the umbrella of global modernism might offer scholars committed to world-systems theory as a seemingly rival methodological approach to the study of global capitalism.

Duke Scholars

Author Aarthi Vadde English