| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Modernist latitudes
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Modernist latitudes.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Finnegans Waves: James Joyce Between the BBC and 2RN -- Reviewing Some Books: E. M. Forster as Blind Uncle -- The End of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand's Comparative Modernisms -- Intimate and Kaleidosonic Styles: Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and the Hybrid Novel -- Epilogue: The Eastern Service in the Era of Decolonization. |
| Summary |
"The BBC's Empire Service was a cauldron of global modernism. James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake found an audience among radio listeners in India, while C. L. R. James read his anticolonial novel The Black Jacobins to listeners throughout the British empire. Writers tested aesthetics, audience, and form before Empire Service microphones, broadcasting these experiments to the colonies before they were made available in England. Rather than spreading imperial views to peripheral colonies, as prevailing scholarship has argued, the BBC in Radio Empire is a contact zone and site of experimentation and contestation. Modernist writers did not simply prop up the empire. Instead, the need to appeal to discerning, well-educated listeners at the edges of the empire pushed the boundaries of literary work in London, inspired high-cultural broadcasting in England, and formed an invisible but influential global cultural network. Morse analyzes how radio's instantaneity and global reach were instrumental in imagining cultural relations during, after, and against imperialism. Far from a monolithic entity, the BBC offers a wide variety of responses to various modernities. The book brings original archival research to bear on the burgeoning scholarly interest in global modernism. Drawing examples from broadcasting by Indian, Nigerian, Irish, Trinidadian, and English writers such as Joyce, James, Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and Wole Soyinka, this book expands our knowledge of broadcasting outside of Western Europe and demonstrates the ways in which the BBC Empire Service offers a new understanding of the relationship between colonial center and periphery and how the radio service often undermined the British imperial world view. By reading unpublished radio scripts from the BBC's archives alongside novels, Morse offers a compelling interdisciplinary argument to understand the development of Global Anglophone culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
BBC World Service -- History -- 20th century.
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BBC World Service. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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English fiction -- Foreign countries -- History and crticism.
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Radio broadcasting, British -- History -- 20th century.
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Foreign countries. |
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Radio and literature -- Great Britain.
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Radio and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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Radio broadcasting, British. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morse, Daniel Ryan. Radio empire New York City : Columbia University Press, 2020. 9780231198363 (DLC) 2020009242 |
| ISBN |
9780231552592 electronic book |
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0231552599 electronic book |
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9780231198363 hardcover |
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9780231198370 paperback |
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