The Idea of a Colony : : Cross-culturalism in Modern Poetry / / Edward Marx.

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• VerfasserIn: Marx, Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In The Idea of a Colony, Edward Marx provides a comprehensive approach to the question of cross-culturalism in modern poetry. He situates the work of canonical British and American modernist poets ? Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Brooke, Kipling, and Flecker ? in dialogue with the work of non-Western, colonial, and minority poets ? Tagore, Naidu, Violet Nicolson ? and brings into the discussion the poets of the Harlem Renaissance.Drawing on psychological and cultural theory, Marx argues that primitivism and exoticism were the main forms of cross-culturalism in the modern period, and that these forms were organized around repression of the unconscious and irrational. To the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others. The result is a series of powerful new readings of canonical modernists and a welcome expansion of the field of modern poetry into the age of multiculturalism and postcoloniality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Spell of Far Arabia: James Elroy Fleckers Islamic Near East -- Chapter Two. The Ends of the Earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan -- Chapter Three. The Exotic Transgressions of 'Laurence Hope' -- Chapter Four. Everybody's Anima: Sarojini Naidu as Nightingale and Nationalist -- Chapter Five. The Tagore Era -- Chapter Six. The Childhood That Never Was: Rupert Brooke's Primitive Paradise -- Chapter Seven. The Infant Gargantua on the Wet, Black Bough: Pound's Chinese Object Relations -- Chapter Eight. The Red Man in the Drawing Room: T.S. Eliot and the Nativists -- Chapter Nine. The Last Nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the Shadow of the Other -- Chapter Ten. Forgotten Jungle Songs: Ambivalent Primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance -- Notes -- Index