Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

by Rajeev Patke

Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies
Neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. This book interprets modernity as an asymmetrically global phenomenon complexly connected to the course of Western imperialism, and demonstrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748639934
• ISBN13: 9780748639939
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher