From the Editors
In the January 2026 issue, two essays explore James Agee and Walker Evans’s notable book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). The book presents an ironic reversal of the Biblical line, which starts, “Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.” Agee’s text and Evan’s photographs instead describe and document poor, unknown sharecroppers, those farthest from being “famous,” who were worthy of praise for their quiet...Read more
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The aim of this cluster is to provide an alternative to the disciplinary reliance on Anglo-European imperiality as a structuring force for what is considered global within global modernisms. Collectively the cluster aims to expand understanding of the relationship between modernism, imperialism, and the global by reconceptualizing how modernism engaged with entangled colonial networks in which Europe is influential, but not the sole player....
Jul 31, 2025



