Mediterranean Modernism

This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial.                                                        

Adam J. Goldwyn is Assistant Professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA, where he specializes in comparative approaches to medieval and modern European and Mediterranean literature. He recently edited a study of the post-medieval reception of Classical mythology entitled The Trojan Wars and the Making of the Modern World.

Renée M. Silverman is Associate Professor of Spanish at Florida International University, USA. She is a specialist in poetry and Avant-Garde/Modernism Studies. She is the author of Mapping the Landscape, Remapping the Text: Spanish Poetry from Antonio Machado's Campos de Castilla to the First Avant-Garde (1909-1925), and the editor of The Popular Avant-Garde.