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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stilling, Robert, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Decadence (Literary movement) > Developing countries.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialisme et arts.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LAW / Legal History
Decadence (Literary movement)
Postcolonialism and the arts
Postcolonialism in literature
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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