Modernism After Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature

by Mara Gennaro and Mara de Gennaro

Book Overview

A 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421439476
• ISBN13: 9781421439471
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"