Post-Colonial Intertexts

Hierarchies of Modernism
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54105-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 106 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 210 g

Reihe: Mini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural Studies

Using Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Secret History of Costaguana, this book asks you to serve as the jury on euro-modernism, specifically the canonical texts Camus’s The Stranger and Conrad’s Nostromo. The book reveals the extent to which euro-modernist aesthetics was culpable in rationalising colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramanathan, Geetha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Intertext and Influence

2 Women and Euro-Modernism

1 Gendered Historiography and Colonial Euro-Modernist Aesthetics

1 Access to History

2 Tropes in History and Narrative

3 Whose History

4 “Plot” and History

5 Gender and History in the Novels

6 Conclusion

2 Difference across Colonial/Post-Colonial Authorship

3 Euro-Modernist and Post-Colonial Masquerades

1 The Detective Story

2 Female Absence and Presence

3 Male Absence and Presence

4 The Post-Colonial Detective

5 The Crime

6 The Modernist Masquerade

7 Woman and Genre

8 Woman and Big History

9 Doubles

10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Romance

4 The Aesthetics and Literary Politics of Commodities

5 Geography and the Gendering of Place

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geetha Ramanathan is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature which she taught at West Chester University, USA. Her most recent books on modernisms are Locating Gender in Modernism: The Female Outsider (2012), and The Female in German Modernisms: The Visual Turn (2019).