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Author Kalliney, Peter J., 1971-

Title Commonwealth of letters : British literary culture and the emergence of postcolonial aesthetics / Peter J. Kalliney.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Modernist Literature & Culture ; 20
Modernist literature & culture ; 20.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Modernist networks and late colonial intellectual -- Race and modernist anthologies: Nancy Cunard, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Ezra Pound -- For continuity: FR Leavis, Kamau Brathwaite, and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- Metropolitan modernism and its West Indian interlocutors -- Developing fictions: Amos Tutuola at Faber and Faber -- Metropolitan publisher as postcolonial clearinghouse: the African writers series -- Jean Rhys: Left Bank modernist as postcolonial intellectual.
Summary Peter Kalliney's original archival work demonstrates that metropolitan and colonial intellectuals used modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate collaborative ventures.
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Subject Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Literature -- Philosophy.
Literature -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Kalliney, Peter J., 1971- Commonwealth of letters. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199977970 (DLC) 2012050992 (OCoLC)828054384
ISBN 9780199977987 (electronic book)
0199977984 (electronic book)
9780199977970
0199977976