Utopian generations the political horizon of twentieth-century literature
Utopian Generations develops an interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical mode...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
c2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Translation/transnation. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31469978*spi |
| Sumario: | Utopian Generations develops an interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is their disposition toward Utopia or "the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations." --From publisher's description. |
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| Descripción Física: | viii, 235 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [201]-230) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826834 |
