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Prose of the World
- Modernism and the Banality of Empire
Engelsk
Bogcover for Prose of the World af Saikat Majumdar, 9780231156950
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9780231156950
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0231156952
Udg. Dato:
19 maj 2015
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,3 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
19 maj 2015
Forfatter(e):

Prose of the World

- Modernism and the Banality of Empire
Engelsk
Paperback 2015
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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, focusing on a writer each from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Ranging from James Joyce's deflated epiphanies to Amit Chaudhuri's disavowal of the grand spectacle of postcolonial national allegories, Majumdar foregrounds the banal as a key instinct of modern and contemporary fiction-one that nevertheless remains submerged because of its antithetical relation to literature's intuitive function to engage or excite. Majumdar asks us to rethink the assumption that banality merely indicates an aesthetic failure. If narrative is traditionally enabled by the tremor, velocity, and excitement of the event, the historical and affective lack implied by the banal produces a narrative force that is radically new precisely because it suspends the conventional impulses of narration.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9780231156950
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0231156952
Udg. Dato:
19 maj 2015
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,3 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
19 maj 2015
Forfatter(e):
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