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Modernism after postcolonialism toward a nonterritorial comparative literature / Mara de Gennaro.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hopkins studies in modernismPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421439488
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN56 .M634 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: "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"--
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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"--

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