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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Gennaro, Mara, 1972- author.

Series:

Hopkins studies in modernism.

Hopkins studies in modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--French-speaking countries.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.

Comparative literature--French and English.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--English and French.

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4214-3947-6

OCLC:

1203118778