This is the community bibliography for a course that I have taught both at Richard Stockton College, New Jersey, and at the National University of Singapore. This course explores the history of the Modernist movement through considering how Modernism was constructed through the involvement of European artists with faraway, "exotic" colonies. How did these influential works of art and literature draw their aesthetic value from their encounter with Empire? How did the "non-European" world then figure into Modernist texts and images--how can we see Africa, Asia and Latin America dramatized into a quintessentially "European" movement? Through studying Modernism as a moment of "cultural globalization," this course introduces students to connections between politics, aesthetics and empire.

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