000710532 000__ 02848cam\a2200481\i\4500 000710532 001__ 710532 000710532 005__ 20210515100825.0 000710532 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000710532 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000710532 008__ 141006s2013\\\\nyu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000710532 010__ $$z 2012014234 000710532 020__ $$a9780231527675$$qelectronic book 000710532 020__ $$z9780231156943$$qhardcover 000710532 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn825181137 000710532 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10663165 000710532 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC949014 000710532 035__ $$a710532 000710532 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$cCaPaEBR 000710532 043__ $$ab------ 000710532 05014 $$aPR9080.5$$b.M35 2013eb 000710532 08204 $$a823/.909$$223 000710532 1001_ $$aMajumdar, Saikat. 000710532 24510 $$aProse of the world$$h[electronic resource] :$$bmodernism and the banality of empire /$$cSaikat Majumdar. 000710532 260__ $$aNew York :$$bColumbia University Press,$$c2013. 000710532 300__ $$a1 online resource (232) pages 000710532 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000710532 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000710532 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000710532 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000710532 5050_ $$aIntroduction: poetics of the prosaic -- James Joyce and the banality of refusal -- Katherine Mansfield and the fragility of Pakeha boredom -- The dailiness of trauma and liberation in Zoe Wicomb -- Amit Chaudhuri and the materiality of the mundane -- Epilogue: The uneventful. 000710532 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000710532 520__ $$aEveryday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for people living on the colonial periphery. Saikat Majumdar suggests that this impoverished affective experience of colonial modernity significantly shapes the innovative aesthetics of modernist fiction. Prose of the World explores the global life of this narrative aesthetic, from late-colonial modernism to the present day. 000710532 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000710532 650_0 $$aCommonwealth fiction (English)$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism. 000710532 650_0 $$aBanality (Philosophy) in literature. 000710532 650_0 $$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 000710532 650_0 $$aNarration (Rhetoric) 000710532 650_0 $$aLiterature and society$$zCommonwealth countries$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000710532 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMajumdar, Saikat.$$tProse of the world.$$dNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2013$$z9780231156943$$w(DLC) 2012014234$$w(OCoLC)786273589 000710532 8520_ $$bacq 000710532 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central 000710532 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 000710532 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=949014$$zOnline Access 000710532 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=949014$$zOnline Access 000710532 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:710532$$pGLOBAL_SET 000710532 980__ $$aEBOOK$$aEBOOK 000710532 980__ $$aBIB 000710532 982__ $$aEbook 000710532 983__ $$aOnline