Indigenous vanguards : education, national liberation, and the limits of modernism / Ben Conisbee Baer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baer, Ben Conisbee, Author.

Series:

Modernist latitudes.

Modernist Latitudes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Colonial--History--20th century.

Education, Colonial.

Indigenous peoples--Education--History--20th cenetury.

Indigenous peoples.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

National liberation movements.

Decolonization.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the question of how to construct an educational practice for all future citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard intellectuals asked, would citizens from diverse subaltern situations be equally enabled to participate in a nonimperial society and world? In circumstances of cultural and social crisis imposed by colonialism, these vanguards sought to refashion modern structures and technologies of public education by actively relating them to residual indigenous collective forms.In Indigenous Vanguards, Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical and historical account of literary engagements with structures and representations of public teaching and learning by cultural vanguards in the colonial world from the 1920s to the 1940s. He shows how modernizing educative projects existed in complex tension with impulses to indigenize national liberation movements, and how this tension manifests as a central aspect of modernist literary practice. Offering new readings of figures such as Alain Locke, Léopold Senghor, Aimé Césaire, D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Baer discloses the limits and openings of modernist representations as they attempt to reach below the fissures of class that produce them. Establishing unexpected connections between languages and regions, Indigenous Vanguards is the first study of modernism and colonialism that encompasses the decisive way public education transformed modernist aesthetics and vanguard politics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Harlem/Berlin: Shadows of Vanguards Between Prussia and Afro-America

2. Négritude (Slight Return): The African Laboratory of Bicephalingualism

3. Négritude (Slight Return) II: Aimé Césaire and the Uprooting Apparatus

4. Educating Mexico: D. H. Lawrence and Indigenismo Between Postcolonial Horror and Postcolonial Hope

5. India Outside India: Gandhi, Fiction, and the Pedagogy of Violence

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780231548960

0231548966

OCLC:

1090130573