Peter J. Kalliney (University of Kentucky Associate Professor)

Commonwealth of Letters

British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Commonwealth of Letters demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate collaborative ventures.

Produktdetails

• Modernist Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780190455927
• ISBN-10: 0190455926
• Artikelnr.: 47870485

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Kalliney is William J. Tuggle Chair in English at the University of Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments and Permissions
* 1. Modernist Networks and Late Colonial Intellectual
* 2. Race and Modernist Anthologies: Nancy Cunard, Langston Hughes,
Claude McKay, Ezra Pound
* 3. For Continuity: FR Leavis, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o
* 4. Metropolitan Modernism and its West Indian Interlocutors
* 5. Developing Fictions: Amos Tutuola at Faber and Faber
* 6. Metropolitan Publisher as Postcolonial Clearinghouse: The African
Writers Series
* 7. Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual
* Conclusion
* Bibliography