Screen LibraryModernism, postcolonialism, and globalism : Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present /
"As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays, a group of distinguished scholars considers these questions in r...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY, United States of America : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays, a group of distinguished scholars considers these questions in relation to novelists, playwrights and poets living in English-speaking countries around the world. The Introduction not only examines how modernism and postcolonialism evolved over roughly two generations, but also situates the writers analyzed in terms of the canonical realignments inspired by the New |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 324 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199980970 0199980977 9780199980963 0199980969 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I109.9 |
| Call Number: | I109.9/M689-3 |
| Contents: | Part I. Africa. 1. Modernism in Chinua Achebe's African Tetralogy / Brian May ; 2. Reading Ngugi Reading Conrad: Modernism, Postcolonialism and the Language Question / Mark Wollaeger ; 3. Kafka and Coetzee / Simon During ; 4. Locating Gordimer: Modernism, Postcolonialism, Realism / Rita Barnard -- Part II. Asia. 5. Rushdie and the Art of Modernism / Richard Begam ; 6. Make It New: Trauma and the Postcolonial Modern in The God of Small Things / Deepika Bahri -- Part III. The Caribbean. 7. (The knocking) has never stopped: Jean Rhys's (Post)colonial Modernism / Andrzej Gasiorek ; 8. Walcott, W |