Chimeras of Form : Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 / Aarthi Vadde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vadde, Aarthi, author.

Series:

Modernist latitudes.

Modernist Latitudes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Internationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 'Chimeras of Form', Aarthi Vadde rethinks the classic concept of modernist internationalism in and beyond Europe. She explains how a wide-ranging group of writers used modernist literary forms to shape ideas of international belonging in the wake of imperialism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Chimeras of Form

1. Autotranslations: Rabindranath Tagore's Internationalism in Circulation

2. Alternating Asymmetry: International Solidarity and Self-Deception in James Joyce's Dubliners and "Cyclops"

3. Stories Without Plots: The Nomadic Collectivism of Claude McKay and George Lamming

4. Archival Legends: National Myth and Transnational Memory in the Works of Michael Ondaatje

5. Root Canals: Zadie Smith's Scales of Injustice

Epilogue: Migritude -The Re-Mediated Work of Art and Art's Mediating Work

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

9780231542562

0231542569

OCLC:

965772530