Modernism and the post-colonial : literature and Empire, 1885-1930
"Modernism and the Post-Colonial examines and delineates a variety of ways in which literary works of the period 1885-1930, most of them located under the umbrella term 'modernist', expressed anxieties and ambivalences with regard to imperialism. Peter Childs argues that modernism's relation to the values of empire might be best understood in terms of recognition of those places in literature where the form and content of experimental writing questioned, opposed or froze in contemplation of the pro-imperial in ways that can be profitable analysed through post-colonial approaches."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
152 pages ; 24 cm.
9780826485588, 0826485588
85829534
Introduction. Victorian and modernist adventures
1. Sons and daughters of the late colonialism
2. The anxiety of Indian encirclement
3. Mongrel figures frozen in contemplative irony
4. Naked and veiled geographical violence
5. The materialized tower of the past
Conclusion. Peripheral vision into the 1930s