Title Radio empire : the BBC's Eastern Service and the emergence of the global anglophone novel / Daniel Ryan Morse

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations Series Modernist latitudes Modernist latitudes. Contents Finnegans Waves: James Joyce Between the BBC and 2RN -- Reviewing Some Books: E. M. Forster as Blind Uncle -- The End of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand's Comparative Modernisms -- Intimate and Kaleidosonic Styles: Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and the Hybrid Novel -- Epilogue: The Eastern Service in the Era of Decolonization Summary "The BBC's Empire Service was a cauldron of global modernism. James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake found an audience among radio listeners in India, while C. L. R. James read his anticolonial novel The Black Jacobins to listeners throughout the British empire. Writers tested aesthetics, audience, and form before Empire Service microphones, broadcasting these experiments to the colonies before they were made available in England. Rather than spreading imperial views to peripheral colonies, as prevailing scholarship has argued, the BBC in Radio Empire is a contact zone and site of experimentation and contestation. Modernist writers did not simply prop up the empire. Instead, the need to appeal to discerning, well-educated listeners at the edges of the empire pushed the boundaries of literary work in London, inspired high-cultural broadcasting in England, and formed an invisible but influential global cultural network. Morse analyzes how radio's instantaneity and global reach were instrumental in imagining cultural relations during, after, and against imperialism. Far from a monolithic entity, the BBC offers a wide variety of responses to various modernities. The book brings original archival research to bear on the burgeoning scholarly interest in global modernism. Drawing examples from broadcasting by Indian, Nigerian, Irish, Trinidadian, and English writers such as Joyce, James, Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and Wole Soyinka, this book expands our knowledge of broadcasting outside of Western Europe and demonstrates the ways in which the BBC Empire Service offers a new understanding of the relationship between colonial center and periphery and how the radio service often undermined the British imperial world view. By reading unpublished radio scripts from the BBC's archives alongside novels, Morse offers a compelling interdisciplinary argument to understand the development of Global Anglophone culture"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 2021) Subject BBC World Service -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT BBC World Service fast Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- Foreign countries -- History and crticism Radio broadcasting, British -- History -- 20th century Radio and literature -- Great Britain LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction Radio and literature Radio broadcasting, British Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020009243 ISBN 9780231552592 0231552599

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