Les modernités littéraires sont-elles une affaire occidentale ?

Abstract

While the decentering of the Eurocentric perspective has long been a common approach in historical studies, the analysis of the relation between Western and non-Western literary and artistic modernities still often relies on the idea of a (spatial and temporal) centrality of Western modernities, that would then have “diffused” outside the West. Since about fifteen years, the notion of “alternative modernities” has developped, in order to account for the existence of modernities elsewhere than in the West and under other forms than the Western ones. The notion opens up the possibility for a rethinking of both the temporality and the spatiality of modernities.

Keywords

• alternative modernities
• Eurocentric diffusionism
• decentering
• interculturality
• polycentric modernities