Utopian generations : the political horizon of twentieth-century literature /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Nicholas, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
Series:Translation/transnation.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Politics and literature > Africa > History > 20th century.
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > English and African.
Comparative literature > African and English.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature) > Africa.
Politics in literature.
Utopias in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Politique et littérature > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature africaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature comparée > Anglaise et africaine.
Littérature comparée > Africaine et anglaise.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Grande-Bretagne.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Afrique.
Politique dans la littérature.
Utopies dans la littérature.
utopian literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African literature
English literature
Modernism (Literature)
Politics and literature
Politics in literature
Utopias in literature
Africa
Great Britain
JSTOR-DDA
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
Politics and literature > Africa > History > 20th century
African literature > 20th century > History and criticism
Literature, Comparative > English and African
Literature, Comparative > African and English
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain
Modernism (Literature) > Africa
Multi-User.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Subjectivity. Ulysses : the modernist sublime ; Ambiguous adventure : authenticity's aftermath
  • History. The good soldier and Parade's end : absolute nostalgia ; Arrow of God : the totalizing gaze
  • Politics. The childermass : revolution and reaction ; Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Pepetela : revolution and retrenchment ; Conclusion : postmodernism as semiperipheral symptom.

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