Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism [electronic resource]
出版項
Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2006
說明
210 p
附註
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: White zombies, black Jacobins; Chapter 1 White zombies in the state machinery; Chapter 2 Set in authority: white rulers and white settlers; Chapter 3 Soldiers and traitors: Rebecca West, the world wars and the state subject; Chapter 4 White turkeys, white weddings: the state and the south; Chapter 5 Modernist (pre)occupations: Haiti, primitivism and anti-colonial nationalism; Afterword Myths, monsters, modernization, modernism; Notes; Index
Chu examines works by T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston and others, to explore how modernists perceived their work and their identities in relation to state power. This book offers a powerful critique of key themes for scholars of modernism, American literature and twentieth-century literature
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