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Chimeras of Form - Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 (Hardcover)
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Chimeras of Form - Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 (Hardcover)
Series: Modernist Latitudes
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In Chimeras of Form, Aarthi Vadde vividly illustrates how modernist
and contemporary writers reimagine the nation and internationalism
in a period defined by globalization. She explains how Rabindranath
Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, George Lamming, Michael
Ondaatje, and Zadie Smith use modernist literary forms to develop
ideas of international belonging sensitive to the afterlife of
empire. In doing so, she shows how this wide-ranging group of
authors challenged traditional expectations of aesthetic form,
shaping how their readers understand the cohesion and interrelation
of political communities. Drawing on her close readings of
individual texts and on literary, postcolonial, and cosmopolitical
theory, Vadde examines how modernist formal experiments take part
in debates about transnational interdependence and social
obligation. She reads Joyce's use of asymmetrical narratives as a
way to ask questions about international camaraderie, and
demonstrates how the "plotless" works of Claude McKay upturn ideas
of citizenship and diasporic alienation. Her analysis of the
contemporary writers Zadie Smith and Shailja Patel shows how
present-day issues relating to migration, displacement, and
economic inequality link modernist and postcolonial traditions of
literature. Vadde brings these traditions together to reveal the
dual nature of internationalism as an aspiration, possibly a
chimeric one, and an actual political discourse vital to
understanding our present moment.
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