Modernist commitments
Subtitle: ethics, politics, and transnational modernism
By: Jessica Berman
Series: Modernist latitudes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780231149501; 9780231149518; 9780231520393
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Politics and literature; Literature and society; History and criticism; History; Modern Literature
Description: Berman argues that modernist narrative bridges the gap between ethics and politics, connecting ethical attitudes and responsibilities to active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: imagining justice; title: Pt. 1; title: Intimate and global: ethical domains from Woolf to Rhys; title: Comparative colonialisms: Joyce, Anand, and the question of engagement; title: Pt. 2; title: Modernism in the Zenana: the domestic spaces of Sorabji, Hussain, and Ishvani; title: Commitment and the scene of war: Max Aub and Spanish Civil War writing; title: Arising from the cornlands: the working-class voices of Conroy and le Sueur.