"Masterfully shuttling back and forth between Europe and Africa,
Nicholas Brown gives us an exciting new perspective on modernism
that is as philosophically astute as it is politically
engaged."--Michael Hardt, Duke University, coauthor of "Empire and
Multitude"
"An enormously significant contribution to the fields of
modernist and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Nicholas
Brown aims to 're-constellate' modernism and African literature
within a single framework, and he does so with great success. Along
the way, however, the book accomplishes a great deal more than
this. For example, it provides a new, critical-theoretical account
of modernism itself. Superbly well-organized and wonderfully
well-written, the book is replete with sentences that resonate with
the reader long after closing its pages."--Neil Larsen, University
of California, Davis, author of "Modernism and Hegemony"
"A complex, sensitive, and sophisticated investigation of the
utopian aspects of both Western modernist literature and
postcolonial African literature. Because modernist literature has
become the standard of aesthetic achievement in Western literature,
this is an audacious project. Brown not only gives equal weight to
the two sets of works he is reading, but he reads each set on its
own terms. As a result, he has produced an extremely useful and
thought-provoking work of criticism that provides important new
insights into both modernism and African literature."--M. Keith
Booker, University of Arkansas, author of ""Ulysses," Capitalism,
and Colonialism"
"In "Utopian Generations," Nicholas Brown's grasp of marxian
analysis is subtle and his general argument about the literary
configurations ofthe idea of Utopia and the sublime on the works of
the modernist and African writers he examines is both riveting and
insightful. However, the book's greatest strength lies in its
detailed and multilayered analyses of the authors and the texts
themselves. Every chapter contains moments of real brilliance,
which derive directly from the analyses. In fact, the writing
inadvertently illustrates a species of immanent criticism in the
best Adornian sense, and in a way that proves really illuminating
as a method of comparative scholarship."--Ato Quayson, University
of Cambridge, author of "Calibrations: Reading for the Social"
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