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  1. Utopian generations
    the political horizon of twentieth-century literature
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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... more

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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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 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400826834; 1400826837; 9780691122113; 0691122113
    RVK Categories: HL 1313 ; HN 1101 ; HN 1313 ; IR 9431
    Series: Translation/transnation
    Subjects: Englisch; Literatur; Postkoloniale Literatur; Moderne
    Other subjects: Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938-); Pepetela (1941-); Achebe, Chinua (1930-2013); Kane, Hamidou (1928-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 235 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-230) and index

  2. Utopian generations
    the political horizon of twentieth-century literature
    Published: ©2005
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1400826837; 9780691122120; 9781400826834
    RVK Categories: HN 1313
    Series: Translation/transnation
    Subjects: African literature; English literature; Literature, Comparative; Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Literaure); Politics and 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; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Geschichte; English literature; Politics and literature; Politics and literature; African literature; Comparative literature; Comparative literature; Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Literature); Politics in literature; Utopias in literature; Politische Literatur; Englisch; Utopie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 235 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-230) and index

    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

    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

  3. Utopian generations
    the political horizon of twentieth-century literature
    Published: c2005
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J

    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... more

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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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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 nai͏̈ve 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." --From publisher's description

     

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