Prose of the world : modernism and the banality of empire /
Majumdar, Saikat.
New York : Columbia University Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: poetics of the prosaic -- James Joyce and the banality of refusal -- Katherine Mansfield and the fragility of Pākehā boredom -- The dailiness of trauma and liberation in Zoë Wicomb -- Amit Chaudhuri and the materiality of the mundane -- Epilogue: The uneventful.
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Banality (Philosophy) in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Literature and society