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Beginning at the end : decadence, modernism, and postcolonial poetry /

In 1857, Charles Baudelaire described the colonial condition as one in which "a nation begins with decadence and starts off where the others leave off." A century later, Frantz Fanon would argue that postcolonial artists were "beginning at the end," following the West's &quo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stilling, Robert, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Decadence and decolonization -- Agha Shahid Ali, Oscar Wilde, and the politics of form for form's sake -- Decadence and the visual arts in Derek Walcott's West Indies -- Decadence and anti-realism in the art of Yinka Shonibare -- Bernardine Evaristo's silver-age poetics -- Decadence and the archive in Derek Mahon's The yellow book -- Conclusion: Dandies at the gate. 
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