Borrow it
Coverart for item
The Resource Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism : Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present, edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses

Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism : Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present, edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses

Author
Editor
Contributor
Summary
"As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays, a group of distinguished scholars considers these questions in relation to novelists, playwrights and poets living in English-speaking countries around the world. The Introduction not only examines how modernism and postcolonialism evolved over roughly two generations, but also situates the writers analyzed in terms of the canonical realignments inspired by the New Modernist Studies and an array of emerging methodologies and approaches. While this volume highlights social and political questions connected with the end of empire, it also considers the aesthetics of postcolonialism, detailing how writers drew upon, responded to and, sometimes reacted against, the formal innovations of modernism. Many of the essays consider the influence modernist artists and movements exercised on postcolonial writers, from Yeats, Conrad, Kafka, Proust, Joyce, Eliot and Woolf to Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Dadaism and Abstraction. The volume is organized around six geographic locales and includes essays on Africa (Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee), Asia (Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy), the Caribbean (Jean Rhys, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul), Ireland (Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney), Australia/New Zealand (David Malouf, Keri Hulme) and Canada (Michael Ondaatje). Among the topics considered are the narrative construction of time and space, the engagement with realism and the handling of aesthetic autonomy, globalization and cultural hybridity" --
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xvi, 324 pages
Contents
  • Part I. Africa. 1. Modernism in Chinua Achebe's African Tetralogy / Brian May ; 2. Reading Ngugi Reading Conrad: Modernism, Postcolonialism and the Language Question / Mark Wollaeger ; 3. Kafka and Coetzee / Simon During ; 4. Locating Gordimer: Modernism, Postcolonialism, Realism / Rita Barnard
  • Part II. Asia. 5. Rushdie and the Art of Modernism / Richard Begam ; 6. Make It New: Trauma and the Postcolonial Modern in The God of Small Things / Deepika Bahri
  • Part III. The Caribbean. 7. (The knocking) has never stopped: Jean Rhys's (Post)colonial Modernism / Andrzej Gasiorek ; 8. Walcott, Woolf and Joyce: the Risks of Postcolonial Modernism / Genevieve Abravanel ; 9. Worlds Lost and Founded: V. S. Naipaul as Belated Modernist / Michael Valdez Moses
  • Part IV. Ireland. 10. Samuel Beckett and the Colonial Gag / Nico Israel; 11. Slow Erosions: Seamus Heaney and the Aftermath of Modernism / Nicholas Allen
  • Part V. Australia/New Zealand. 12. Interior History, Tempered Selves: David Malouf, Modernism and Imaginative Possession / Brigid Rooney ; 13. Modernism and Maoritagna: Re-Reading the Cultural Politics of Modernist Appropriation in the bone people / Philip Steer
  • Part VI. Canada. 14. Michael Ondaatje Tricks the Eye / Alice Brittan
Isbn
9780199980970
Instance
Label
Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism : Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present
Title
Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism
Title remainder
Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present
Statement of responsibility
edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses
Title variation
Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present
Contributor
Author
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays, a group of distinguished scholars considers these questions in relation to novelists, playwrights and poets living in English-speaking countries around the world. The Introduction not only examines how modernism and postcolonialism evolved over roughly two generations, but also situates the writers analyzed in terms of the canonical realignments inspired by the New Modernist Studies and an array of emerging methodologies and approaches. While this volume highlights social and political questions connected with the end of empire, it also considers the aesthetics of postcolonialism, detailing how writers drew upon, responded to and, sometimes reacted against, the formal innovations of modernism. Many of the essays consider the influence modernist artists and movements exercised on postcolonial writers, from Yeats, Conrad, Kafka, Proust, Joyce, Eliot and Woolf to Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Dadaism and Abstraction. The volume is organized around six geographic locales and includes essays on Africa (Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee), Asia (Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy), the Caribbean (Jean Rhys, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul), Ireland (Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney), Australia/New Zealand (David Malouf, Keri Hulme) and Canada (Michael Ondaatje). Among the topics considered are the narrative construction of time and space, the engagement with realism and the handling of aesthetic autonomy, globalization and cultural hybridity" --
Assigning source
Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
809/.9112
Index
index present
LC call number
PN56.M54
LC item number
M614 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1950-
  • 1957-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Begam, Richard
  • Moses, Michael Valdez
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Postcolonialism in literature
  • Literature and globalization
  • Literature and globalization
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Postcolonialism in literature
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • Ireland
  • New Zealand
  • 18.05 English literature
  • 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  • 89.91 imperialism
Label
Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism : Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present, edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I. Africa. 1. Modernism in Chinua Achebe's African Tetralogy / Brian May ; 2. Reading Ngugi Reading Conrad: Modernism, Postcolonialism and the Language Question / Mark Wollaeger ; 3. Kafka and Coetzee / Simon During ; 4. Locating Gordimer: Modernism, Postcolonialism, Realism / Rita Barnard -- Part II. Asia. 5. Rushdie and the Art of Modernism / Richard Begam ; 6. Make It New: Trauma and the Postcolonial Modern in The God of Small Things / Deepika Bahri -- Part III. The Caribbean. 7. (The knocking) has never stopped: Jean Rhys's (Post)colonial Modernism / Andrzej Gasiorek ; 8. Walcott, Woolf and Joyce: the Risks of Postcolonial Modernism / Genevieve Abravanel ; 9. Worlds Lost and Founded: V. S. Naipaul as Belated Modernist / Michael Valdez Moses -- Part IV. Ireland. 10. Samuel Beckett and the Colonial Gag / Nico Israel; 11. Slow Erosions: Seamus Heaney and the Aftermath of Modernism / Nicholas Allen -- Part V. Australia/New Zealand. 12. Interior History, Tempered Selves: David Malouf, Modernism and Imaginative Possession / Brigid Rooney ; 13. Modernism and Maoritagna: Re-Reading the Cultural Politics of Modernist Appropriation in the bone people / Philip Steer -- Part VI. Canada. 14. Michael Ondaatje Tricks the Eye / Alice Brittan
Control code
1033548474
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xvi, 324 pages
Isbn
9780199980970
Lccn
2018011602
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1033548474
Label
Modernism, postcolonialism, and globalism : Anglophone literature, 1950 to the present, edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I. Africa. 1. Modernism in Chinua Achebe's African Tetralogy / Brian May ; 2. Reading Ngugi Reading Conrad: Modernism, Postcolonialism and the Language Question / Mark Wollaeger ; 3. Kafka and Coetzee / Simon During ; 4. Locating Gordimer: Modernism, Postcolonialism, Realism / Rita Barnard -- Part II. Asia. 5. Rushdie and the Art of Modernism / Richard Begam ; 6. Make It New: Trauma and the Postcolonial Modern in The God of Small Things / Deepika Bahri -- Part III. The Caribbean. 7. (The knocking) has never stopped: Jean Rhys's (Post)colonial Modernism / Andrzej Gasiorek ; 8. Walcott, Woolf and Joyce: the Risks of Postcolonial Modernism / Genevieve Abravanel ; 9. Worlds Lost and Founded: V. S. Naipaul as Belated Modernist / Michael Valdez Moses -- Part IV. Ireland. 10. Samuel Beckett and the Colonial Gag / Nico Israel; 11. Slow Erosions: Seamus Heaney and the Aftermath of Modernism / Nicholas Allen -- Part V. Australia/New Zealand. 12. Interior History, Tempered Selves: David Malouf, Modernism and Imaginative Possession / Brigid Rooney ; 13. Modernism and Maoritagna: Re-Reading the Cultural Politics of Modernist Appropriation in the bone people / Philip Steer -- Part VI. Canada. 14. Michael Ondaatje Tricks the Eye / Alice Brittan
Control code
1033548474
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xvi, 324 pages
Isbn
9780199980970
Lccn
2018011602
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1033548474

Subject

Genre

Library Locations

    • Ellis LibraryBorrow it
      1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO, 65201, US
      38.944491 -92.326012

Library Links

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by University of Missouri Libraries. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.
Processing Feedback ...