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Modernism in the Metrocolony - Urban Cultures of Empire in Twentieth-Century Literature (Hardcover)
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Modernism in the Metrocolony - Urban Cultures of Empire in Twentieth-Century Literature (Hardcover)
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While literary modernism is often associated with Euro-American
metropolises such as London, Paris or New York, this book considers
the place of the colonial city in modernist fiction. From the
streets of Dublin to the shop-houses of Singapore, and from the
botanical gardens of Bombay to the suburbs of Suva, the monumental
landscapes of British colonial cities aimed to reinforce empire's
universalising claims, yet these spaces also contradicted and
resisted the impositions of an idealised English culture. Inspired
by the uneven landscapes of the urban British empire, a group of
twentieth-century writers transformed the visual incongruities and
anachronisms on display in the city streets into sources of
critique and formal innovation. Showing how these writers responded
to empire's metrocolonial complexities and built legacies,
Modernism in the Metrocolony traces an alternative, peripheral
history of the modernist city.
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