Title The idea of a colony : cross-culturalism in modern poetry / Edward Marx

Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) Contents The spell of far Arabia: James Elroy Flecker's Islamic Near East -- The ends of the earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan -- The exotic transgressions of 'Laurence Hope' -- Everybody's anima: Sarojini Naidu as nightingale and nationalist -- The Tagore era -- The childhood that never was: Rupert Brooke's primitive paradise -- The infant Gargantua on the wet, black bough: Ezra Pound's Chinese object relations -- The red man in the drawing room: T.S. Eliot and the nativists -- The last nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the shadow of the other -- Forgotten jungle songs: ambivalent primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance Summary "In The Idea of a Colony, Edward Marx provides a comprehensive approach to the question of cross-culturalism in modern poetry. He situates the work of canonical British and American modernist poets - Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Brooke, Kipling, and Flecker - in dialogue with the work of non-Western, colonial, and minority poets - Tagore, Naidu, Violet Nicolson - and brings into the discussion the poets of the Harlem Renaissance." "Drawing on psychological and cultural theory, Marx argues that primitivism and exoticism were the main forms of cross-culturalism in the modern period, and that these forms were organized around repression of the unconscious and irrational. To the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others. The result is a series of powerful new readings of canonical modernists and a welcome expansion of the field of modern poetry into the age of multiculturalism and postcoloniality."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English poetry -- History and criticism. Primitivism in literature. Exoticism in literature. English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism English poetry -- 20th century -- Themes, motives Commonwealth poetry (English) -- 19th century -- Themes, motives Commonwealth poetry (English) -- 20th century -- Themes, motives Cultural pluralism in literature. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. English poetry -- Themes, motives Cultural pluralism in literature English poetry Exoticism in literature Primitivism in literature Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442681477 1442681470 1281994596 9781281994592

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