Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Literary Studies) - Softcover

Patke, Rajeev S.

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ISBN 10: 0748639934 ISBN 13: 9780748639939

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

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A new study into modernity and modernism as a global interconnected phenomena

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Rajeev S. PATKE studied in Pune and Oxford. He has taught at the National University of Singapore, and is currently Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

Rajeev Patke is Director of the Division of Humanities at the Yale-NUS College, Singapore

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Postcolonial Literary StudiesSeries Editors: David Johnson and Ania LoombaThis series examines how Postcolonial Studies reconfigures the major periods and areas of literature. The books relate key literary and cultural texts both to their historical and geographical contexts, and to contemporary issues of neo-colonialism and global inequality. Each volume provides a comprehensive survey of the existing field of scholarship and debate, and is also an original intervention in its own right.Each book includes: a time line; an introductory literature survey; discussion of critical, theoretical, historical and political debates; exemplary critical readings of literary texts; and further reading.Modernist Literature and Postcolonial StudiesRajeev S. PatkeThe book provides a revisionary account of modernist writing informed by insights derived from postcolonial studies.Rajeev S. Patke argues that the history of modernist writing is inextricable from the history of colonialism, and demonstrates that modernist practices from Europe and the United States inspired adaptations and transpositions among writers from the former colonies which constitute an ‘afterlife’ for literary modernism.The first chapter discusses the relations between ‘modern', 'modernity' and 'modernism'. The second chapter describes three debates that bring modernism and colonialism into conversation with one another. The first concerns the tension between realist and modernist narrative practices. The second addresses the fact that modernists such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot were innovative in their aesthetics but reactionary in their politics. The third debate examines the question of how modernist practices relate to race and prejudice, with specific reference to Joseph Conrad and Tayeb Salih. The final chapter comprises three case studies which figure modernist as well as postcolonial writers who adapt modernist practices to their own purposes. The first deals with Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys; the second with the role of allegory in Franz Kafka; and the third with Nick Joaquin and Arun Kolatkar. The book includes a timeline and bibliography.

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• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748639934
• ISBN 13: 9780748639939
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 164
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