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Migrant Modernism: Postwar London and the West Indian Novel
J. Dillon Brown
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
In Migrant Modernism, J. Dillon Brown examines the intersection between British literary modernism and the foundational West Indian novels that emerged in London after World War II. By emphasising the location in which anglophone Caribbean writers such as George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon produced and published their work, Brown reveals a dynamic convergence between modernism and postcolonial literature that has often been ignored. Modernist techniques not only provided a way for these writers to mark their difference from the aggressively English, literalist aesthetic that dominated postwar literature in London but also served as a self-critical medium through ... Read more
In Migrant Modernism, J. Dillon Brown examines the intersection between British literary modernism and the foundational West Indian novels that emerged in London after World War II. By emphasising the location in which anglophone Caribbean writers such as George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon produced and published their work, Brown reveals a dynamic convergence between modernism and postcolonial literature that has often been ignored. Modernist techniques not only provided a way for these writers to mark their difference from the aggressively English, literalist aesthetic that dominated postwar literature in London but also served as a self-critical medium through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813933948
SKU
V9780813933948
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About J. Dillon Brown
J. Dillon Brown is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
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