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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford
As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays, a distinguished...
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As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays, a distinguished group of scholars considers these questions in relation to novelists, playwrights, and poets living in English-speaking countries around the world. Cover -- Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Modernism in Chinua Achebe's African Tetralogy -- 2. Reading Ngũgĩ Reading Conrad: Modernism, Postcolonialism, and the Language Question -- 3. Kafka and Coetzee -- 4. Locating Gordimer: Modernism, Postcolonialism, Realism -- Part II -- 5. Rushdie and the Art of Modernism -- 6. Make It New: Trauma and the Postcolonial Modern in The God of Small Things -- Part III -- 7. "(The Knocking) Has Never Stopped": Jean Rhys's (Post)colonial Modernism -- 8. Walcott, Woolf, and Joyce: The Risks of Postcolonial Modernism -- 9. Worlds Lost and Founded: V. S. Naipaul as Belated Modernist -- Part IV -- 10. Samuel Beckett and the Colonial Gag -- 11. Slow Erosions: Seamus Heaney and the Aftermath of Modernism -- Part V -- 12. Interior History, Tempered Selves: David Malouf, Modernism, and Imaginative Possession -- 13. Modernism and Māoritanga: Rereading the Cultural Politics of Modernist Appropriation in the bone people -- Part VI -- 14. Michael Ondaatje Tricks the Eye -- Index.
