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Utopian generations : the political horizon of twentieth-century literature /
Utopian Generations develops an interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical mode...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Translation/transnation.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Utopian Generations develops an interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is their disposition toward Utopia or "the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations."--Publisher's description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-230) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826834 1400826837 9780691122113 0691122113 |