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Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies Neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. This book interprets modernity as an asymmetrically global phenomenon complexly connected to the course of Western imperialism, and demonstrates how the impact of Western modernism produced new developments in writing from all the former colonies of Europe and the US. These developments constitute the afterlife of Western modernism. The various ways in which the aesthetic ideologies and writing strategies of Western modernism have been adapted, transposed and modified by some of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century is demonstrated in the book through a set of case studies, each of which juxtaposes a canonical modernist text with a postcolonial text that shows how modernist modes metamorphosed in interaction with the turbulent and volatile realities of colonies and new nations struggling to arrive at a modernity of their own in contexts marked by colonial histories. Thus

Author

Patke, Rajeev S. (Rajeev Shridhar), author

Publisher

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748682614

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14