Reorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representation termed border modernism that challenges the aesthetic hegemony of metropolitan (high) modernism. In this dialogical study,MoreReorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representation termed border modernism that challenges the aesthetic hegemony of metropolitan (high) modernism.
In this dialogical study, Schedler compares the works of European and Anglo-American modernists (D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather) with the works of Mexican, Native American and Chicano writers (Mariano Azuela, John Joseph Mathews and Americo Paredes) who engaged with modernist theories and practices. In the process he uncovers a unique intercultural aesthetic produced in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico aimed at modernizing the native literary traditions of the Americas.