Jane Marcus

Hearts of Darkness

White Women Write Race

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Produktbeschreibung

This text examines the writings of novelists such as Virginia Woolf, Nancy Cunard, Mulk Raj Anand and Djuna Barnes, artists whose work coincided with the end of empire and the rise of facism before World War II. All these writers delved into the ""dark hearts"" of imperialism and totalitarianism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9780813529639
• ISBN-10: 0813529638
• Artikelnr.: 21801222

Autorenporträt

Jane Marcus is Distinguished Professor of English at CUNY-Graduate Center and City College of New York. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy; Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman; The Young Rebecca West; and other works.

Inhaltsangabe

The empire is written
"A very fine Negress"
Britannia rules The waves
Laughing at Leviticus: Nightwood as woman's circus epic
Bonding and bondage: Nancy Cunard and the making of the Negro anthology
Laying down the white woman's burden: Michael Arlen's The green hat and
Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie
Coda: how to recognize a public intellectual