Radio Empire - The Bbcs Eastern Service Emergence of Global Anglophone Novel

Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC¿s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Finnegans Waves: James Joyce Between the BBC and 2RN
2: Reviewing Some Books: E. M. Forster as Blind Uncle
3: The End of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand’s Comparative Modernisms
4: Intimate and Kaleidosonic Styles: Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and the Hybrid Novel
Epilogue: The Eastern Service in the Era of Decolonization
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Daniel Ryan Morse is Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Summary

Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting.

Additional text

This is an important book for students of Indian Anglophone literature but is also a useful contribution to the history of BBC Radio 3 and the role of the BBC’s external broadcasts.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Ryan Morse
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780231198370
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19837-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Modernist Latitudes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Radio, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Radio / Podcasts, Literature: history and criticism, Literary Criticism