Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Informationen zum Autor Rajeev S. PATKE studied in Pune and Oxford. He has taught at the National University of Singapore, and is currently Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Klappentext This book provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. Zusammenfassung Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. In this book! the basic argument is that neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise! neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Timeline; Outline; Chapter 1: Introductory Survey; 1.1 Becoming 'modern'; 1.2 'Modern' in a postcolonial perspective; 1.3 'Otherness' and the modernist imagination; Chapter 2: Three Debates; 2.1 Modernist literature and the Left; 2.2 Modernist literature and the Right; 2.3 Modernist literature and race; Chapter 3: Case Studies; 3.1 Modernism and gender; 3.2 Modernist allegory; 3.3 Modernism and faith; Bibliography; Suggested Reading; Index.

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• Authors: Rajeev Patke, Rajeev S Patke, Rajeev S. Patke, Rajeev S Patke, Rajeev S. Patke
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2013
• EAN: 9780748639939
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-3993-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies; Postcolonial Literary Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies