Prose of the world modernism and the banality of empire / [electronic resource] :
Saikat Majumdar.
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
- 232 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: poetics of the prosaic -- James Joyce and the banality of refusal -- Katherine Mansfield and the fragility of Pakeha boredom -- The dailiness of trauma and liberation in Zoe Wicomb -- Amit Chaudhuri and the materiality of the mundane -- Epilogue: The uneventful.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780231527675 (electronic bk.)
Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.--20th century Banality (Philosophy) in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Literature and society--History--Commonwealth countries--20th century.