{"product_id":"utopian-generations-the-political-horizon-of-twentiethcentury-literature-9780691122120","title":"Utopian Generations  The Political Horizon of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfrican literature has commonly been seen as representationally naive vis-a-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-a-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues the author, is their disposition toward Utopia or the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Masterfully shuttling back and forth between Europe and Africa, Nicholas Brown gives us an exciting new perspective on modernism that is as philosophically astute as it is politically engaged.\"\u003cb\u003e—Michael Hardt, Duke University, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eEmpire and Multitude\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An enormously significant contribution to the fields of modernist and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Nicholas Brown aims to 're-constellate' modernism and African literature within a single framework, and he does so with great success. Along the way, however, the book accomplishes a great deal more than this. For example, it provides a new, critical-theoretical account of modernism itself. Superbly well-organized and wonderfully well-written, the book is replete with sentences that resonate with the reader long after closing its pages.\"\u003cb\u003e—Neil Larsen, University of California, Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eModernism and Hegemony\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A complex, sensitive, and sophisticated investigation of the utopian aspects of both Western modernist literature and postcolonial African literature. Because modernist literature has become the standard of aesthetic achievement in Western literature, this is an audacious project. Brown not only gives equal weight to the two sets of works he is reading, but he reads each set on its own terms. As a result, he has produced an extremely useful and thought-provoking work of criticism that provides important new insights into both modernism and African literature.\"\u003cb\u003e—M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas, author of \u003ci\u003e\"Ulysses,\" Capitalism, and Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eUtopian Generations\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicholas Brown's grasp of marxian analysis is subtle and his general argument about the literary configurations of the idea of Utopia and the sublime on the works of the modernist and African writers he examines is both riveting and insightful. However, the book's greatest strength lies in its detailed and multilayered analyses of the authors and the texts themselves. Every chapter contains moments of real brilliance, which derive directly from the analyses. In fact, the writing inadvertently illustrates a species of immanent criticism in the best Adornian sense, and in a way that proves really illuminating as a method of comparative scholarship.\"\u003cb\u003e—Ato Quayson, University of Cambridge, author of \u003ci\u003eCalibrations: Reading for the Social\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix  INTRODUCTION 1      PART ONE: SUBJECTIVITY 35      CHAPTER TWO: Ulysses: The Modernist Sublime 37  CHAPTER THREE: Ambiguous Adventure: Authenticity's Aftermath 59      PART TWO: HISTORY 81      CHAPTER FOUR: The Good Soldier and Parade's End: Absolute Nostalgia 83  CHAPTER FIVE: Arrow of God: The Totalizing Gaze 104      PART THREE: POLITICS 125      CHAPTER SIX: The Childermass: Revolution and Reaction 127  CHAPTER SEVEN: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Pepetela:Revolution and Retrenchment 150  CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusion:Postmodernism as Semiperipheral Symptom 173      NOTES 201  INDEX 231","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403736031575,"sku":"9780691122120","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691122120.jpg?v=1730484397","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/utopian-generations-the-political-horizon-of-twentiethcentury-literature-9780691122120","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}