One May morning in 1922 ...

[Dave Monroe]

"One May morning in 1922 [...] a young engineering
student named Kurt Mondaugen [...] arrived at a white
outpost near the village of Kalkfontein South." (V.,
Ch. 9, p.229)

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/extra/sud-cities.html

>From Annette Shandler Levitt, The Genres and Genders
of Surrealism (New York: St Martin's, 1999), Ch. 1,
"An Introduction to Surrealism/Modernism and all That
Jazz), pp. 1-8 ...

"In 1922,regarded my many as the annus mirabilis of
Modernism, Breton rejected Tristan Tzara (the Rumanian
whose Zurich-born Dadaism was attempting to shock
Paris), while another of the early Surrealists, Roger
Vitrac, wrote a play in which the dreams of three
characters intersected in a Jungian shared
consciousness.  In Paris  that same year, the
Dublin-born James Joyce introduced stream of
consciousness into Ulysses; in London, Virginia Woolf
completed Jacob's Room, the first of her novels to
suggest succesfully the free flow of the unconscious,
while H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) depicted the haphazrd
occurence of it [sic] imagery in her budding novel,
Asphodel." (pp. 1-2).

And see as well, e.g., ...

Manganaro, Mark.  Culture, 1922: The Emergence of
   a Concept.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2002.

http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7371.html

North, Michael.  Reading 1922: A Return to the
   Scene of the Modern.  NY: Oxford UP, 2001.

This engaging study returns to a truly remarkable
year, the year in which both Ulysses and The Waste
Land were published, in which The Great Gatsby was
set, and during which the Fascisti took over in Italy,
the Irish Free State was born, the Harlem Renaissance
reached its peak, Charlie Chaplin's popularity
crested, and King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered.
In short, the year which not only in hindsight became
the primal scene of literary modernism but which
served as the cradle for a host of major political and
aesthetic transformations resonating around the globe.

In his previous study, the acclaimed Dialect of
Modernism (OUP, 1994), Michael North looked at the
racial and linguistic struggles over the English
language which gave birth to the many strains of
modernism. Here, he expands his vision to encompass
the global stage, and tells the story of how books
changed the future of the world as we know it in one
unforgettable year.

http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/AmericanLiterature/20thC/?view=usa&ci=9780195127201

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