Modernism Postcolonialism and Globalism

<p>As England withdrew from its empire after World War II how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses a distinguished group of scholars considers these questions in relation to novelists playwrights and poets living in English-speaking countries around the world. <em>Modernism Postcolonialism and Globalism </em>not only examines how modernism and postcolonialism evolved over several generations but also situates the writers analyzed in terms of canonical realignments inspired by the New Modernist Studies and an array of emerging methodologies and approaches.</p><p>While this volume highlights social and political questions connected with the end of empire it also considers the aesthetics of postcolonialism detailing how writers drew upon responded to and sometimes reacted against the formal innovations of modernism. Many of the essays consider the influence modernist artists and movements exercised on postcolonial writers from W. B. Yeats Joseph Conrad Franz Kafka Marcel Proust James Joyce T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Impressionism Expressionism Surrealism and Abstractionism. <em>Modernism Postcolonialism and Globalism </em>is organized around six geographic locales and includes essays on Africa (Chinua Achebe Ngugi wa Thiong'o Nadine Gordimer J. M. Coetzee) Asia (Salman Rushdie Arundhati Roy) the Caribbean (Jean Rhys Derek Walcott V. S. Naipaul) Ireland (Samuel Beckett Seamus Heaney) Australia/New Zealand (David Malouf Keri Hulme) and Canada (Michael Ondaatje). Examining how Anglophone writers engaged with the literary intellectual and cultural heritage of modernism this volume offers a vital and distinctive intervention in ongoing discussions of modern and contemporary literature.</p>