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BL
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632353
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Brown, Nicholas,1971-
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| Title & Author
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Utopian generations : : the political horizon of twentieth-century literature /\ Nicholas Brown
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, c2005
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| Series Statement
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Translation/transnation
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viii, 235 p. ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0691122113 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0691122121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-230) and index
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| Contents
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Modernism and African literature -- In defense of totality -- The eidaesthetic itinerary -- The modernist sublime -- The African prise de parole -- All theory is postcolonial theory -- Totality, allegory, and history -- Utopian generations -- Part 1 Subjectivity 35 -- Chapter 2 Ulysses: The Modernist Sublime 37 -- Ulysses, history, and form -- Ulysses and the modernist sublime -- "Eumaeus": the sublimity of the banal and the banality of the sublime -- "Ithaca": the becoming-meaning of information and the becoming-information of meaning -- Chapter 3 Ambiguous Adventure: Authenticity's Aftermath 59 -- Ambiguous Adventure and Modernism -- Ambiguous Adventure, authenticity, and death -- Heidegger as ethnophilosopher -- Tempels's Bantu and Heidegger's Greeks -- Reification and the work of the colonized -- The privatization of utopia -- Part 2 History 81 -- Chapter 4 The Good Soldier and Parade's End: Absolute Nostalgia 83 -- Why Ford Madox Ford's novels can only be read once -- Conrad, Ford, and literary impressionism -- The Good Soldier: absolute nostalgia -- Parade's End: absolute and conventional nostalgia -- Chapter 5 Arrow of God: The Totalizing Gaze 104 -- The Achebe-event -- Achebe and the image of Africa -- Yeats, Eliot, and Achebe: the poetics of disaster -- Arrow of God as general allegory -- The image of Africa revisited -- Arrow of God as total allegory -- Part 3 Politics 125 -- Chapter 6 The Childermass: Revolution and Reaction 127 -- Wyndham Lewis, fascism, and the critique of liberalism -- The Childermass and revolution: the embodied cliche -- The Childermass and reaction: imperialism and the strong personality -- The reaction in revolution and the revolution in reaction -- Chapter 7 Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Pepetela: Revolution and Retrenchment 150 -- The Trial of Dedan Kimathi and the ambivalence of Mau Mau -- Kamiriithu, the Kenyan theater apparatus, and the neocolonial state -- A Geracao da Utopia, I Will Marry When I Want, and national tragedy -- A new generation of utopia: the multitude and musical form -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: Postmodernism as Semiperipheral Symptom 173 -- The eidaesthetic itinerary continued -- Bossaposbossa -- The aesthetic ideology of bossa nova -- Four options for cultural production on the semiperiphery -- 1964 and the end of modernism -- Tropicalia, or bread and circuses?
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'Utopian Generations' develops an interpretative matrix for understanding world literature - one that renders modernism & postcolonial African literature comprehensible within a single framework
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English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Politics and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century
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Politics and literature-- Africa-- History-- 20th century
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African literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Comaprative literature-- English and African
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Comaprative literature-- African and English
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Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain
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Modernism (Literaure)-- Africa
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Politics in literature
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Utopias in literature
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/358
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PR478.P64B76 2005
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