Utopian generations the political horizon of twentieth-century literature
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| Sprache: | English |
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Princeton University Press
©2005
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| Beschreibung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 235 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1400826837 9780691122120 9781400826834 |