Description: Further DetailsTitle: Utopian GenerationsCondition: NewSubtitle: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century LiteratureISBN-10: 0691122121EAN: 9780691122120ISBN: 9780691122120Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/30/2005Description: Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naive vis-a-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-a-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is their disposition toward Utopia or "the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations." Grounded in a profound rethinking of the Hegelian Marxist tradition, this fluently written book takes as its point of departure the partial displacement during the twentieth century of capitalism's "internal limit" (classically conceived as the conflict between labor and capital) onto a geographic division of labor and wealth. Dispensing with whole genres of commonplace contemporary pieties, Brown examines works from both sides of this division to create a dialectical mapping of different modes of Utopian aesthetic practice.The theory of world literature developed in the introduction grounds the subtle and powerful readings at the heart of the book--focusing on works by James Joyce, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ford Madox Ford, Chinua Achebe, Wyndham Lewis, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Pepetela. A final chapter, arguing that this literary dialectic has reached a point of exhaustion, suggests that a radically reconceived notion of musical practice may be required to discern the Utopian desire immanent in the products of contemporary culture.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 340gAuthor: Nicholas BrownGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Translation/TransnationRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Utopian Generations
Title: Utopian Generations
Subtitle: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature
ISBN-10: 0691122121
EAN: 9780691122120
ISBN: 9780691122120
Release Date: 10/30/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Utopian Generations : the Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Comparative Literature, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / Politics, African, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Author: Nicholas Brown
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Length: 9.1 in
Series: Translation/Transnation Ser.
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Perfect
