TY - BOOK AU - Majumdar,Saikat ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Prose of the world: modernism and the banality of empire AV - PR9080.5 .M35 2013 U1 - 823/.909 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Commonwealth fiction (English) KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Banality (Philosophy) in literature KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Literature and society KW - Commonwealth countries KW - History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=949014 ER -