Modernism after postcolonialism toward a nonterritorial comparative literature

Introduction: Anxious Mastery and the Forms It Takes -- Troubling Classifications: Unspeakable Figures of Métissage in "Melanctha" and Disgrace -- Troubling Sovereignties: Intimations of Relation in The Waste Land and Cahier d'un retour au pays natal -- Traversing Bounds of Historical...

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1. Verfasser: De Gennaro, Mara (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Hopkins studies in modernism
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Anxious Mastery and the Forms It Takes -- Troubling Classifications: Unspeakable Figures of Métissage in "Melanctha" and Disgrace -- Troubling Sovereignties: Intimations of Relation in The Waste Land and Cahier d'un retour au pays natal -- Traversing Bounds of Historical Memory: Dethroning the Narrator and Creolizing Testimony in A Passage to India and Texaco -- Traversing Bounds of Solidarity: Poor Analogies and Painful Negotiations in Three Guineas and The Farming of Bones -- Conclusion: The Beauty of a Trembling World
"Many previous studies of modernity read colonial or postcolonial texts through the lens of critical theories originating in Europe or North America, but author Mara de Gennaro undertakes a comparative literary approach in which she juxtaposes a canonical anglophone modernist writer with an anglophone or francophone postcolonial writer. She models a new critical approach for relating modernism to postcolonialism"--
Beschreibung:xi, 229 Seiten
ISBN:9781421439471
978-1-4214-3947-1
9781421439464
978-1-4214-3946-4