Prose of the world
Subtitle: modernism and the banality of empire
By: Saikat Majumdar
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780231156943; 9780231527675
Subjects: Commonwealth fiction (English); Narration (Rhetoric); Literature and society; Banality (Philosophy) in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; History and criticism; History
Description: 'Prose of the World' explores the global life of the banality of Empire. From late-colonial modernism to the present day, he looks at writers from all over the world to expose the everyday life of those abroad.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: poetics of the prosaic; title: James Joyce and the banality of refusal; title: Katherine Mansfield and the fragility of Pakeha boredom; title: The dailiness of trauma and liberation in Zoe Wicomb; title: Amit Chaudhuri and the materiality of the mundane; title: Epilogue: The uneventful.