Modernism was the product of a period of adjustment, politically and aesthetically, and the period from the end of the First World War to 1922, especially so. This chapter will focus on the work of two very different writers, Mina Loy and Rose Macaulay, who were self-reflexive about the hopefulness and practicalities of this as a period of change, particularly in imagining the new internationalism that would counter the nationalist aggression unleashed during the war. This chapter will argue that 1922 internationals—or thinking about internationalism—cut across the division between “modernist” and “traditional” writing. This chapter will consider the poetry and novels of these two very different writers in and around 1922 in order to suggest something about the historicity of post-war international thinking. While they experimented with hopeful ideas of worldly pacifist collaborations and configurations—the world as a “salon,” or the “solar system” or the “universe,” rather than the nation as a unit of meaning—they also attended to the new organisational structures, some governmental and some grassroots, that were transforming international political, activist, and cultural networks. Hopes were channelled into the creation of new organisations and collaborations, and new organisations spawned innovative kinds of political and cultural hopes. While the ideas of a borderless world were themselves the product of a particular post-war moment, this chapter will suggest that the relationships between utopian ideas and the practical networks and procedures of international organisations were also part of this history.

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1922 Internationals: Rose Macaulay and Mina Loy

  • Rachel Potter

摘要

Modernism was the product of a period of adjustment, politically and aesthetically, and the period from the end of the First World War to 1922, especially so. This chapter will focus on the work of two very different writers, Mina Loy and Rose Macaulay, who were self-reflexive about the hopefulness and practicalities of this as a period of change, particularly in imagining the new internationalism that would counter the nationalist aggression unleashed during the war. This chapter will argue that 1922 internationals—or thinking about internationalism—cut across the division between “modernist” and “traditional” writing. This chapter will consider the poetry and novels of these two very different writers in and around 1922 in order to suggest something about the historicity of post-war international thinking. While they experimented with hopeful ideas of worldly pacifist collaborations and configurations—the world as a “salon,” or the “solar system” or the “universe,” rather than the nation as a unit of meaning—they also attended to the new organisational structures, some governmental and some grassroots, that were transforming international political, activist, and cultural networks. Hopes were channelled into the creation of new organisations and collaborations, and new organisations spawned innovative kinds of political and cultural hopes. While the ideas of a borderless world were themselves the product of a particular post-war moment, this chapter will suggest that the relationships between utopian ideas and the practical networks and procedures of international organisations were also part of this history.