Chimeras of form : modernist internationalism beyond Europe, 1914-2016 /

In Chimeras of Form, Aarthi Vadde rethinks the classic concept of modernist internationalism in and beyond Europe. She explains how a wide-ranging group of writers used modernist literary forms to shape ideas of international belonging in the wake of imperialism. Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Cl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vadde, Aarthi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Series:Modernist latitudes.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Internationalism in literature.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Internationalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Internationalism in literature
Electronic books.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Chimeras of form
  • Autotranslations : Rabindranath Tagore's internationalism in circulation
  • Alternating asymmetry : international solidarity and self-deception in James Joyce's Dubliners and "Cyclops"
  • Stories without plots : the nomadic collectivism of Claude McKay and George Lamming
  • Archival legends : national myth and transnational memory in the works of Michael Ondaatje
  • Root canals : Zadie Smith's scales of injustice
  • Epilogue : Migritude : the re-mediated work of art and art's mediating work.

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