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Book SynopsisUsing Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Secret History of Costaguana, this book asks you to serve as the jury on euro-modernism, specifically the canonical texts Camus’s The Stranger and Conrad’s Nostromo. The book reveals the extent to which euro-modernist aesthetics was culpable in rationalising colonialism.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Intertext and Influence 2 Women and Euro-Modernism 1 Gendered Historiography and Colonial Euro-Modernist Aesthetics 1 Access to History 2 Tropes in History and Narrative 3 Whose History 4 “Plot” and History 5 Gender and History in the Novels 6 Conclusion 2 Difference across Colonial/Post-Colonial Authorship 3 Euro-Modernist and Post-Colonial Masquerades 1 The Detective Story 2 Female Absence and Presence 3 Male Absence and Presence 4 The Post-Colonial Detective 5 The Crime 6 The Modernist Masquerade 7 Woman and Genre 8 Woman and Big History 9 Doubles 10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Romance 4 The Aesthetics and Literary Politics of Commodities 5 Geography and the Gendering of Place Conclusion Bibliography Index
