This symposium celebrates the centennial year of 1922 when T. S. Eliot’s book of poems, The Waste Land and James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses ushered in a new era of ‘High Modernism’ in European literary history. What the Eurocentric discussions of 1922 Modernism often forget is the fact that Rabindranath Tagore’s book of curious genre-bending texts, Lipika was published in the same year 1922 as was his play ‘Muktodhara’ (‘The Waterfall’). This convergence tells us that modernism didn’t happen only in European literature. In 100 years a lot of critical water has flown under the bridge and we have acknowledged modernisms in the plural as coeval global literary developments across the world.
