Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism : Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present / edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses.

Contributor Begam, Richard, 1950- editor, author.

ImprintNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Descriptionxvi, 324 pages ; 25 cm

Note:Introduction / Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses -- Part I. Africa -- Modernism in Chinua Achebe's African Tetralogy / Brian May -- Reading Ngugi Reading Conrad: Modernism, Postcolonialism and the Language Question / Mark Wollaeger -- Kafka and Coetzee / Simon During -- Locating Gordimer: Modernism, Postcolonialism, Realism / Rita Barnard -- Part II. Asia -- Rushdie and the Art of Modernism / Richard Begam -- Make It New: Trauma and the Postcolonial Modern in The God of Small Things / Deepika Bahri -- Part III. The Caribbean -- (The knocking) has never stopped: Jean Rhys's (Post)colonial Modernism / Andrzej Gasiorek -- Walcott, Woolf and Joyce: the Risks of Postcolonial Modernism / Genevieve Abravanel -- Worlds Lost and Founded: V. S. Naipaul as Belated Modernist / Michael Valdez Moses -- Part IV. Ireland -- Samuel Beckett and the Colonial Gag / Nico Israel -- Slow Erosions: Seamus Heaney and the Aftermath of Modernism / Nicholas Allen -- Part V: Australia/New Zealand -- Interior History, Tempered Selves: David Malouf, Modernism and Imaginative Possession / Brigid Rooney -- Modernism and Maoritagna: Re-Reading the Cultural Politics of Modernist Appropriation in the bone people / Philip Steer -- Part VI. Canada -- Michael Ondaatje Tricks the Eye / Alice Brittan.

Note:Africa -- Asia -- The Caribbean -- Ireland -- Australia/New Zealand -- Canada.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"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 Modernist Studies and an array of emerging methodologies and approaches. While this volume highlights social and political questions connected with the end of empire, it also considers the aesthetics of postcolonialism, detailing how writers drew upon, responded to and, sometimes reacted against, the formal innovations of modernism. Many of the essays consider the influence modernist artists and movements exercised on postcolonial writers, from Yeats, Conrad, Kafka, Proust, Joyce, Eliot and Woolf to Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Dadaism and Abstraction. The volume is organized around six geographic locales and includes essays on Africa (Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee), Asia (Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy), the Caribbean (Jean Rhys, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul), Ireland (Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney), Australia/New Zealand (David Malouf, Keri Hulme) and Canada (Michael Ondaatje). Among the topics considered are the narrative construction of time and space, the engagement with realism and the handling of aesthetic autonomy, globalization and cultural hybridity." -- Provided by publisher.

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