Prose of the world [electronic resource] : modernism and the banality of empire / Saikat Majumdar.
2013
PR9080.5 .M35 2013eb
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Prose of the world [electronic resource] : modernism and the banality of empire / Saikat Majumdar.
Author
Majumdar, Saikat.
ISBN
9780231527675 electronic book
9780231156943 hardcover
9780231156943 hardcover
Publication Details
New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (232) pages
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: 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.
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.