Modernist literature and postcolonial studies /

Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies Neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patke, Rajeev S. (Rajeev Shridhar) (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Series:Postcolonial literary studies.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=603165
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory survey. Becoming 'modern'
  • 'Modern' in a postcolonial perspective
  • 'Otherness' and the modernist imagination
  • Three debates. Modernist literature and the Left
  • Modernist literature and the Right
  • Modernist literature and race
  • Case studies. Modernism and gender
  • Modernist allegory
  • Modernism and faith.