Prose of the world [electronic resource] : modernism and the banality of empire / Saikat Majumdar.
Majumdar, Saikat.
2013
PR9080.5 .M35 2013eb
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Title Prose of the world [electronic resource] : modernism and the banality of empire / Saikat Majumdar.
Author Majumdar, Saikat.
ISBN 9780231527675 electronic book
9780231156943 hardcover
Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (232) pages
Call Number PR9080.5 .M35 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.909
Summary Everyday 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Epilogue: The uneventful.

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