Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modeism
by: Patricia E. Chu (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (14 Dec. 2006)
Language: English
Print length: 210 pages
ISBN-10: 0521869668
ISBN-13: 9780521869669
Book Description
Twentieth-century authors were profoundly influenced by changes in the way nations and states goveed their citizens. The development of state administrative technologies allowed Weste states to identify, track and regulate their populations in unprecedented ways. Patricia E. Chu argues that innovations of form and style developed by Anglo-American modeist writers chart anxieties about personal freedom in the face of increasing govemental controls. Chu examines a diverse set of texts and films, including works by T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston and others, to explore how modeists perceived their work and their identities in relation to state power. Additionally, she sheds light on modeists’ ideas about race, colonialism and the postcolonial, as race came increasingly to be seen as a political and govemental construct. This book offers a powerful critique of key themes for scholars of modeism, American literature and twentieth-century literature.
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