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Chimeras of form : = modernist internationalism beyond Europe, 1914-2016 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Chimeras of form :/ by Aarthi Vadde
Reminder of title:	modernist internationalism beyond Europe, 1914-2016 /
Author:	Vadde, Aarthi
Description:	1 online resource (240 pages)
Subject:	Modernism (Literature) -
Online resource:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/COLB0002424.html
ISBN:	9780231542562

Chimeras of form : = modernist internationalism beyond Europe, 1914-2016 /
Vadde, Aarthi

Chimeras of form :modernist internationalism beyond Europe, 1914-2016 /by Aarthi Vadde - 1 online resource (240 pages) - Modernist Latitudes. - Modernist latitudes.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Chimeras of Form; 1. Autotranslations: Rabindranath Tagore's Internationalism in Circulation; 2. Alternating Asymmetry: International Solidarity and Self-Deception in James Joyce's Dubliners and "Cyclops"; 3. Stories Without Plots: The Nomadic Collectivism of Claude McKay and George Lamming; 4. Archival Legends: National Myth and Transnational Memory in the Works of Michael Ondaatje; 5. Root Canals: Zadie Smith's Scales of Injustice

In Chimeras of Form, Aarthi Vadde rethinks the classic concept of modernist internationalism in and beyond Europe. She explains how a wide-ranging group of writers used modernist literary forms to shape ideas of international belonging in the wake of imperialism. Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, George Lamming, Michael Ondaatje, and Zadie Smith questioned traditional expectations of aesthetic form and, in doing so, cast doubt on parallel notions of the cohesion and wholeness of political communities. Drawing on her close readings of individual texts and on literary, postcolonial

ISBN: 9780231542562Subjects--Topical Terms:

563988
Modernism (Literature)
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

761329
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: PN56.M54 / V33 2016eb

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.9112

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