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New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature) by Matthew Hayward; Maebh Long; Sudesh Mishra; Julia A Boyd; Paul Sharrad; Bonnie Etherington; Paul Lyons; Alice Te Punga Somerville; David O'Donnell; Stanley Orr is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies’ critical map. Yet, as the chapters of __New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific__ collectively show, Pacific artists and writers have been as creatively engaged in the construction and representation of modernity as any of their global counterparts. In the second half of the twentieth century, driving a still ongoing process of decolonisation, Pacific Islanders forged an extraordinary cultural and artistic movement. Integrating Indigenous aesthetics, forms, and techniques with a range of other influences — realist novels, avant-garde poetry, anti-colonial discourse, biblical verse, Indian mythology, American television, Bollywood film — Pacific artists developed new creative registers to express the complexity of the region’s transnational modernities. __New Oceania__ presents the first sustained account of the modernist dimensions of this period, while presenting timely reflections on the ideological and methodological limitations of the global modernism rubric. Breaking new critical ground, it brings together schola

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Author

Matthew Hayward; Maebh Long; Sudesh Mishra; Julia A Boyd; Paul Sharrad; Bonnie Etherington; Paul Lyons; Alice Te Punga Somerville; David O'Donnell; Stanley Orr

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000576610

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction