{"product_id":"modernism-after-postcolonialism-9781421439471","title":"Modernism after Postcolonialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA polemical reaction against a trend in global modernist studies which still privileges European and Anglophone texts.   Existing studies of literary modernism generally read Anglophone Atlantic texts through the lens of critical theories emanating from Europe and North America. In Modernism after Postcolonialism, Mara de Gennaro undertakes a comparative Anglophone-Francophone study, invoking theoretical frameworks from Gayatri Spivak, Édouard Glissant, Françoise Vergès, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and others. Examining transnational poetics of comparison that contest the comparative practices of colonialist, racist, and ethno-nationalist discourses, the book treats these poetics as models for a creolist critical method of reading, one that searches out unpredictable, mutually generative textual relations obscured by geographic and linguistic divides. In each chapter, de Gennaro pairs a canonical English-language modernist writer (Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Fors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMara de Gennaro\u003c\/b\u003e's study is ambitious and impressive. It pursues a rich variety of ideas, it chooses texts for reasons familiar to modernist and postcolonial scholars but pairs them in surprising ways, and its innovative close readings justify these pairings.\u003cbr\u003e—Jesse Wolfe, California State University, \u003ci\u003eComparative Literature Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Anxious Mastery and the Forms It Takes\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Troubling Classifications: Unspeakable Figures of \u003ci\u003eMétissage\u003c\/i\u003e in \"Melanctha\" and \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Troubling Sovereignties: Intimations of Relation in \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCahier d'un retour au pays natal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Traversing Bounds of Historical Memory: Dethroning the Narrator and Creolizing Testimony in \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTexaco\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Traversing Bounds of Solidarity: Poor Analogies and Painful Negotiations in \u003ci\u003eThree Guineas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Farming of Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. The Beauty of a Trembling World\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408140378455,"sku":"9781421439471","price":27.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421439471.jpg?v=1730501733","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernism-after-postcolonialism-9781421439471","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}