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... of Japanese cosmopolitanism and imperial modernization, while focalizing the possibilities and limitations of engaging Asian colonial modernity with European forms. In localizing the European epiphany, and ambivalently acknowledging Japanese versions of it, the Korean modernists generate significant irony...

... that the anomalies, dissonances, and ruptures that define colonial modernity can open up a “negative cosmopolitanism,” which locates the potential for ethical engagement in what seems like the waste products of history. For Naipaul, cosmopolitanism designates not a volitional, character-strengthening endeavor...

... identifications with local, national, and global orientation that it galvanized—exemplifies Irish colonial modernity. Colonial modernity is not primarily urban and industrial, as in the dominant Eurocentric model, but instead involves “radical discontinuities . . . result[ing] from the collision of modernizing...

...) verse. To reflect and reflect on the disorienting experiences of living as a subaltern subject in colonial modernity, with its complexities and confu- sions, interminglings and mismatchings of cultures, customs, and languag- es, Constab Ballads presents a heterogeneous verse that modulates...

... addresses its stealth core subject, a postwar America with its Western philosophical baggage and political and historical burden fumbling awkwardly forward toward new social and gender models. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 colonial modernity ethics globalization postcolonialism trauma...

... that illuminates colonial women writers’ foundational role in literary modernism and the ways in which their representations of London disrupt imperial claims to stability. Through her paradigm of the “voyage in,” with its playful reversal of Virginia Woolf ’s The Voyage Out (1915), Snaith focuses...

... although he continued to focus on writing about that island. Two answers could be correct—-James Joyce and Derek Walcott.This tell­ ing biographical convergence should cause us to reconsider the accept­ ed critical oppositions of modernism/postmodernism and colonialism/ postcolonialism...

... temporalities to yield compelling theorizations of alternative modernities and anti-colonial resistance. I conclude that while Wenzel successfully conveys the complexities of the discourse sur- rounding the cattle killing, her readings would have benefited from a consideration of oral Xhosa texts...

...). Such an approach not only generates significant new insights by demonstrating that an array of midcentury black writers, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, Ann Petry, and C. L. R James, contributed to “a renewed political imagination of totalitarianism from the vantage of colonial modernity.” It also...

... the optic of Hegel’s state/society diremption helps to restore the political dimension denied by colonialism to the episode’s figuring of the nation, and so enables us to register the potential for other configurations of the social and the political in modernity. Reading “Cyclops” in this way demands...

..., the totalitarian” (95), but it seems he has set for himself an impossible task. The cultural tool on which Pound ultimately settles for conveying the totality of culture is poetry, an artform that, to Pound, seems to solve the problem of how to make sense of modernity’s—and especially colonial...

... Industrial Revolution depended on slave labor in Caribbean colonies. 4 Recent work in Southern Studies and on the history of capitalism has challenged dominant understandings of slavery’s relationship to capitalist modernity. 2 The traditional view in Western historiography that slavery represented...

... Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.249 pages Thomas Henthorne Despite its title, which promises a study of colonial odysseys in the mod­ ernist novel, Colonial Odysseys is primarily a book on Joseph Conrad that examines his use of the odyssey motif in the context of modern...

... this sense of being unsettled is to be found at the source of much of the writing we call modernist, but for Pearson the colonial contexts of Irish modernism are crucially related to how these writers imagine the world beyond those contexts. In other words, Joyce, Bowen, and Beckett share a set of unsettling...

... at the imperial core by colonial expansion at the periphery. Drawing on theories that delineate the connections among imperialism, the city, and modernist form, I use Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting” to trace the relationship between cosmopolitanism and metro- politan modernism. After establishing...

... that the idea of modern progress is itself a mythic construct that carries the dangers of obliterating the colonial subject.” Lassner adds: “For the island’s people, settlers and colonized alike, there is no postcolonial future without the recognition and affirmation of their contesting colonial...

... anti-colonialism and mocks the utopian rhetoric of “modernization” common to both socialist and capitalist ideology. Through Bloom, Joyce personifies a dilemma confronting the theo- rists of an independent Ireland, namely the problem of how to enact an economically progressive program...

... of nationhood and status of citizenship become even more corrupted and deformed by their historical inheritances of the racial legacies of colonialism” (156). 23. Though Ray socializes with cosmopolitan whites, he is by no means a member of that group, as Celena Kusch notes: Within modernism...

... is connected with aspects of modernity, particularly the changing infrastructure of the Irish public sphere. Furey, as Gretta confides to Gabriel, was employed in the gasworks in Galway. He is thus part of the efforts to modernize utilities in Ireland by the British colonial regime in the aftermath...

...’ and thus also between non-synchronous experiences” (9). Esty locates “a significant symbolic relationship between uneven development in colonial modernity (in the post-Berlin Conference era, 1885-1940) and antidevelopmental plots in canonical fiction on the same period” (72). 7. It should be noted...