Title Utopian generations : the political horizon of twentieth-century literature / Nicholas Brown

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) Series Translation/transnation Translation/transnation. Contents Subjectivity. Ulysses : the modernist sublime ; Ambiguous adventure : authenticity's aftermath -- History. The good soldier and Parade's end : absolute nostalgia ; Arrow of God : the totalizing gaze -- Politics. The childermass : revolution and reaction ; Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Pepetela : revolution and retrenchment ; Conclusion : postmodernism as semiperipheral symptom Summary Utopian Generations develops an interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is their disposition toward Utopia or "the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations."--Publisher's description Analysis JSTOR-DDA English literature 20th century History and criticism Politics and literature Great Britain History 20th century Politics and literature Africa History 20th century African literature 20th century History and criticism Literature, Comparative English and African Literature, Comparative African and English Modernism (Literature) Great Britain Modernism (Literature) Africa Politics in literature Utopias in literature Multi-User Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-230) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Politics and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Comparative literature -- English and African Comparative literature -- African and English Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain Modernism (Literature) -- Africa Politics in literature. Utopias in literature. utopian literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African literature English literature Modernism (Literature) Politics and literature Politics in literature Utopias in literature Africa Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400826834 1400826837 9780691122113 0691122113

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