Walter Kalaidjian, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism by Denise GINFRAY

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Daniel Katz, American Modernism’s Expatriate Scene. The Labour of Translation by Roxana Oltean

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Contemporary “Ethnic” Popular Music: A Challenge to American Modernity? by Claude Chastagner

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Michelle E. Moore, Chicago and the Making of American Modernism. Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict by Andreas Hübner

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Etude, consolidation et protection de caoutchouc naturel by François Duboisset

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Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (with a new preface). by Greg Zacharias

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Re-thinking and Re-making Kinship—a Critical Reevaluation of the Narratives of (American) Modernity: An Interview with Nancy Bentley by Cécile Roudeau, Nancy Bentley

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Modernidades religiosas latinoamericanas. Un renovado debate epistemológico y conceptual by Fortunato Mallimaci

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The Modernist Poem or the Infinite Prolegomena by Aurore Clavier

“…Far from enabling an absolute contact between words and things that would settle once and for all the ambiguous relationship between reality and imagination, the seemingly close unit of the poem or collection, more particularly as it was expressed by American modernism, is thus jeopardized, the text being assigned to the virtuality of a “placeless place” (Aristotle; Agamben) where poetry and philosophy may meet. …”
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La molteplicità e la crisi by Stefania Consigliere, Cristina Zavaroni

“…The Bakonzo of the Rwenzori (Uganda), who are facing the intersection between the local anthropo-poietic logic and the one brought about by Euro-American “modernity”, make for and an excellent case study, allowing for an analogical comparison with what is happening here. …”
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Martha Graham, ‘An American, A kosmos’: Border-crossing in Martha Graham’s early works by Adeline CHEVRIER-BOSSEAU

“…Graham pioneered a new way for women to dance, to express their femininity and their power: her works, inspired by Native American traditions, Mexican folklore, Greek mythology and literature from both sides of the Atlantic, depict strong women who are not afraid of pushing boundaries.Creating an American choreographic tradition also meant exploring its literary legacy for Martha Graham: this paper therefore also delves into the way the Whitmanian intertext emerges in Graham’s choreographic writing, in her conception of Americanness, modernity, the body and gender.…”
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Nation of Mechanics: Automobility, Animality, and Indigeneity in John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown (1934) by Daniel Bowman

“…In much the same way that animal symbols are co-opted in automotive branding, Indigenous identities are exploited in car culture to conjure up a nostalgic past in which the ecological and colonial violence of American Modernity is conveniently forgotten. I will argue that Mathews’s Osage characters find themselves in a double-bind as they seek to refute stereotypes of technological primitivism whilst still maintaining and respecting Indigenous connections to the natural world.…”
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