Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: On or about December 1910, London 1
5. I: The First Moderns
6. 1. 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness 11
7. 2. 1912, London, Chicago, Florence, New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings 23
8. 3. 1916, Flanders, London, Dublin: ‘Everything Has Gone Well’ 35
9. 4. 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero 48
10. II: Between the Wars
11. 5. 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms – Parallax and Palimpsest 61
12. 6. 1928, London: A Strange Interlude 73
13. 7. 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World 82
14. 8. 1941, London under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History 98
15. III: Cold War and Empire’s Ebb
16. 9. 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax 113
17. 10. 1955, Disneyland: ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ and the Fiction of Cold War Culture 126
18. 11. 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire’s Ebb and Flow 137
19. 12. 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: ‘Things Fall Apart’ and ‘the Empire Writes Back 150
20. 13. 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Aesthetic of Complicity 161
21. 14. 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer 173
22. IV: Millennium Approaches
23. 15. 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco, Vietnam: ‘We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show’ 189
24. 16. 1970, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global 201
25. 17. 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred 217
26. 18. 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire 229
27. 19. 11 February 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After 240
28. 20. 1991, The Web: Network Fictions 251
29. 21. 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison 263
30. Coda: 11 September 2001, New York: Two Y2Ks 273
31. Notes on Contributors 279
32. Index 283