Prose of the World : : Modernism and the Banality of Empire / / Saikat Majumdar.
Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for people living on the colonial periphery. Saikat Majumdar suggests that this impoverished affective exp...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: Poetics of the Prosaic
- 1. James Joyce and the Banality of Refusal
- 2. Katherine Mansfield and the Fragility of Pākehā Boredom
- 3. The Dailiness of Trauma and Liberation in Zoë Wicomb
- 4. Amit Chaudhuri and the Materiality of the Mundane
- EPILOGUE: The Uneventful
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index