Modernism and the Post-Colonial: Literature and Empire 1885-1930Bloomsbury Academic, 9 de ago. de 2007 - 162 páginas This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the historical conditions of fiction as the empire waned are equally pertinent. Peter Childs argues that modernist literary writing should be read in terms of its response and relationship to events overseas and that it should be seen as moving towards an emergent post-colonialism instead of struggling with a residual colonial past. Beginning by offering an analysis of the generational and gender conflict that spans art and empire in the period, Childs moves on to examine modernism's expression of a crisis of belief in relation to subjectivity, space, and time. Finally, he investigates the war as a turning point in both colonial relations and aesthetic experimentation. Each of the core chapters focuses on one key writer and discuss a range of others, including: Conrad, Lawrence, Kipling, Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Conan Doyle and Haggard. |
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... look upon his intensely savage and yet intellectual face , sharpening , sharpening , sharpening at the murderous- looking axe ' ( 46 ) . These two examples run against the mainstream of the narratives which infantilize or demonize ...
... look at the facts of the case . Western nations as soon as they emerge into history show the beginnings of those capacities for self- government having merits of their own . ... You may look through the whole history of the Orientals in ...
... Look at their eyes - look at their mouths . [ ... ] They're the Lost Tribes , or something like it , and they've grown to be English " ( Kipling , 1964 : 185 ) . 26 The story moves towards its terrible conclusion from this hubristic ...
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Victorian and Modernist Adventurers | 1 |
Sons and Daughters of the Late Colonialism | 26 |
The Anxiety of Indian Encirclement | 45 |
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