Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. In this book, the basic argument is that neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development.

Rajeev Patke is Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. Read less

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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• Publication Date: October 1, 2013
• Pages: 224
• ISBN13: 9780748639939
• Item Weight: 340 grams
• Original Price: 23.99 GBP
• Edition: N/A
• Binding: Paperback