Rajeev S Patke

Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780748639922
• ISBN-10: 0748639926
• Artikelnr.: 35683112

Autorenporträt

Rajeev S. PATKE studied in Pune and Oxford. He has taught at the National University of Singapore, and is currently Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Timeline
Outline
Chapter 1: Introductory Survey
1.1 Becoming 'modern'
1.2 'Modern' in a postcolonial perspective
1.3 'Otherness' and the modernist imagination
Chapter 2: Three Debates
2.1 Modernist literature and the Left
2.2 Modernist literature and the Right
2.3 Modernist literature and race
Chapter 3: Case Studies
3.1 Modernism and gender
3.2 Modernist allegory
3.3 Modernism and faith
Bibliography
Suggested Reading
Index.