{"product_id":"post-colonial-intertexts-hierarchies-of-modernism-9789004541054","title":"Post-colonial Intertexts: Hierarchies of Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements    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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210863567191,"sku":"9789004541054","price":60.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/post-colonial-intertexts-hierarchies-of-modernism-9789004541054","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}