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Zusatztext Kalliney deals with this relationship between modernist and postcolonial literatures deftly! offering a new perspective on an era of literary history that is all too often characterized by antagonism between Anglo-American modernism and postcolonial politics Informationen zum Autor Peter Kalliney is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness. Klappentext Peter Kalliney's original archival work demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate collaborative ventures. " Commonwealth of Letters is an original and revisionist account of the historical encounter between the writers and institutions of English modernism and late colonial intellectuals, informed by solid archival research and refreshing new readings of the postcolonial canon, and keenly attuned to the complex history of cultural exchanges across the Atlantic." -- Simon Gikandi, author of Slavery and the Culture of Taste"For too long, modernist autonomy and postcolonial politics were thought to be antithetical. This book's splendid research deals this dichotomy a convincing blow. With illuminating insights into crossracial networks in radio, publishing, and other cultural institutions, Kalliney brilliantly shows how modernism enriched African and Caribbean literatures and was itself sustained by them." -- Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics"A fascinating study which explores how modernist ideas influenced a generation of black and white writers-often working sideby-side-and created international networks of affiliation which rise up above race or geography. An illuminating and convincing examination of Anglophone literary history in the second half of the twentieth century. -- Caryl Phillips, author of Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 Zusammenfassung Peter Kalliney's original archival work demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate collaborative ventures. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PERMISSIONS ; 1. MODERNIST NETWORKS AND LATE COLONIAL INTELLECTUAL ; 2. RACE AND MODERNIST ANTHOLOGIES: NANCY CUNARD, LANGSTON HUGHES, CLAUDE MCKAY, EZRA POUND ; 3. FOR CONTINUITY: FR LEAVIS, KAMAU BRATHWAITE, AND NGUGI WA THIONG'O ; 4. METROPOLITAN MODERNISM AND ITS WEST INDIAN INTERLOCUTORS ; 5. DEVELOPING FICTIONS: AMOS TUTUOLA AT FABER AND FABER ; 6. METROPOLITAN PUBLISHER AS POSTCOLONIAL CLEARINGHOUSE: THE AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES ; 7. JEAN RHYS: LEFT BANK MODERNIST AS POSTCOLONIAL INTELLECTUAL ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ...
