Hearts of Darkness : : White Women Write Race / / Jane Marcus.
In this book, one of modernism's most insightful critics, Jane Marcus, examines the writings of novelists such as Virginia Woolf, Nancy Cunard, Mulk Raj Anand, and Djuna Barnes-artists whose work coincided with the end of empire and the rise of fascism before the Second World War. All these wri...
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Marcus, Jane, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Hearts of Darkness : White Women Write Race / Jane Marcus. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2004] ©2004 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Empire Is Written -- 2. "A Very Fine Negress" -- 3. Britannia Rules The Waves -- 4. Laughing at Leviticus: Nightwood as Woman's Circus Epic -- 5. Bonding and Bondage: Nancy Cunard and The Making of The Negro Anthology -- 6. Laying Down the White Woman's Burden: Michael Arlen's The Green Hat and Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie -- Coda: How to Recognize a Public Intellectual -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In this book, one of modernism's most insightful critics, Jane Marcus, examines the writings of novelists such as Virginia Woolf, Nancy Cunard, Mulk Raj Anand, and Djuna Barnes-artists whose work coincided with the end of empire and the rise of fascism before the Second World War. All these writers delved into the "dark hearts" of imperialism and totalitarianism, thus tackling some of the most complex cultural issues of the day. Marcus investigates previously unrecognized ways in which social and political tensions are embodied by their works. The centerpiece of the book is Marcus's dialogue with one of her best-known essays, "Britannia Rules The Waves." In that piece, she argues that The Waves makes a strong anti-imperialist statement. Although many already support that argument, she now goes further in order to question the moral value of such a buried critique on Woolf's part. In "A Very Fine Negress" she analyzes the painful subject of Virginia Woolf's racism in A Room of One's Own. Other chapters traverse the connected issues of modernism, race, and imperialism. In two of them, we follow Nancy Cunard through the making of the Negro anthology and her appearance in a popular novel of the freewheeling Jazz Age. Elsewhere, Marcus delivers a complex analysis of A Passage to India, in a reading that interrogates E. M. Forster's displacement of his fear of white Englishwomen struggling for the vote. Marcus, as always, brings considerable gifts as both researcher and writer to this collection of new and reprinted essays, a combination resulting in a powerful interpretation of many of modernism's most cherished figures. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) American fiction Women authors History and criticism. English fiction Women authors History and criticism. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. Postcolonialism in literature. Race in literature. Sociology in literature. Women, White Attitudes. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110688610 print 9780813529622 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813542515 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813542515 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813542515.jpg |
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