Radio Empire: The Bbc's Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel

by Daniel Ryan Morse

Book Overview

Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated Indian audience, its programming provided remarkable moments: Listeners in India heard James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake on the eve of independence, as well as the literary criticism of E. M. Forster and the works of Indian writers living in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023119837X
• ISBN13: 9780231198370
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"