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Zusatztext Kalliney's argument is extensive, meticulously researched, and compellingly revisionist... Kalliney provides a startling and thorough reimagining of the complex lines of aesthetic, philosophic, and institutional affiliation between metropolitan and colonial authors in the period 1930-70. Informationen zum Autor Peter J. Kalliney is William J. Tuggle Chair in English at the University of Kentucky. Klappentext Commonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential publishers, and university English departments, became important sites in the emergence of postcolonial literature after the war. How did some of modernism's leading figures of the 1930s--such as T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender--come to admire late colonial and early postcolonial literature in the 1950s? Similarly, why did late colonial and early postcolonial writers--including Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Claude McKay, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o--actively seek alliances with metropolitan intellectuals? Peter Kalliney's original and extensive archival work on modernist cultural institutions demonstrates that this disparate group of intellectuals had strong professional incentives to treat one another more as fellow literary professionals, and less as political or cultural antagonists. Zusammenfassung Commonwealth of Letters demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate collaborative ventures. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
