Radio empire : the BBC's Eastern Service and the emergence of the global anglophone novel / Daniel Ryan Morse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morse, Daniel Ryan, author.

Series:

Modernist Latitudes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

BBC World Service--History--20th century.

BBC World Service.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated Indian audience, its programming provided remarkable moments: Listeners in India heard James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake on the eve of independence, as well as the literary criticism of E. M. Forster and the works of Indian writers living in London.In Radio Empire, Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting. He traces how modernist writers used radio to experiment with form and introduce postcolonial literature to global audiences. While innovative authors consciously sought to incorporate radio’s formal features into the novel, literature also exerted a reciprocal and profound influence on twentieth-century broadcasting. Reading Joyce and Forster alongside Attia Hosain, Mulk Raj Anand, and Venu Chitale, Morse demonstrates how the need to appeal to listeners at the edges of the empire pushed the boundaries of literary work in London, inspired high-cultural broadcasting in England, and formed an invisible but influential global network.Adding a transnational perspective to scholarship on radio modernism, Radio Empire demonstrates how the history of broadcasting outside of Western Europe offers a new understanding of the relationship between colonial center and periphery.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

Chapter One Finnegans Waves

Chapter Two Reviewing Some Books

Chapter Three The End of Empire

Chapter Four Intimate and Kaleidosonic Styles

Epilogue

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55259-9

OCLC:

1147932992