Modernism after postcolonialism toward a nonterritorial comparative literature /
De Gennaro, Mara, 1972-
Modernism after postcolonialism toward a nonterritorial comparative literature / Mara de Gennaro. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - Hopkins studies in modernism .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Anxious Mastery and the Forms It Takes -- Troubling Classifications: Unspeakable Figures of Metissage 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"--
9781421439488
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Comparative literature--French and English.
Comparative literature--English and French.
Modernism (Literature)--French-speaking countries.
Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .M634 2020
Modernism after postcolonialism toward a nonterritorial comparative literature / Mara de Gennaro. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource. - Hopkins studies in modernism .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Anxious Mastery and the Forms It Takes -- Troubling Classifications: Unspeakable Figures of Metissage 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"--
9781421439488
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Comparative literature--French and English.
Comparative literature--English and French.
Modernism (Literature)--French-speaking countries.
Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .M634 2020