Jessica Berman, Associate Professor and Chair of English, has just published a book, Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism. In the book Berman explores how modernist narrative connects ethical attitudes and responsibilities to the active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges divisions between “modernist” and “committed” writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagement undergirds modernisms worldwide and that it is strengthened rather than hindered by formal experimentation. The book also makes the case for an expanded, transnational model of literary modernism.
Modernist Commitments is part of the Modernist Latitudes book series from Columbia University Press, which Berman coedits with Paul Saint-Amour. For more information, visit http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14950-1/modernist-commitments.
