Modernist Networks and Late Colonial Intellectuals -- Race and Modernist Anthologies: Nancy Cunard, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Ezra Pound -- For Continuity: FR Leavis, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngùgî wa Thiong'o -- Metropolitan Modernism and Its West Indian Interlocutors -- Developing Fictions: Amos Tutuola at Faber and Faber -- Metropolitan Publisher as Postcolonial Clearinghouse: The African Writers Series -- Jean Rhys: Left Bank Modernist as Postcolonial Intellectual -- Conclusion: Postcolonial Writing or Global Literature in English?
Summary
Peter Kalliney's original archival work demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate collaborative ventures
