Race, nationalism and the state in British and American modernism / Patricia E. Chu
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- Race in literature
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- Nationalism in literature
- State, The, in literature
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Race dans la littérature
- Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Modernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne
- Nationalisme dans la littérature
- État dans la littérature
- Modernisme (Littérature) -- États-Unis
- Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American literature
- English literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Nationalism in literature
- Race in literature
- State, The, in literature
- Great Britain
- United States
- 1900-1999
- 810.93580904 22
- PR830.M63 C48 2006eb
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Chu examines works by T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston and others, to explore how modernists perceived their work and their identities in relation to state power. This book offers a powerful critique of key themes for scholars of modernism, American literature and twentieth-century literature
Twentieth-century authors were profoundly influenced by changes in the way nations and states governed their citizens. The development of state administrative technologies allowed Western states to identify, track and regulate their populations in unprecedented ways. Patricia E. Chu argues that innovations of form and style developed by Anglo-American modernist writers chart anxieties about personal freedom in the face of increasing governmental controls. Chu examines a diverse set of texts and films, including works by T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston and others, to explore how modernists perceived their work and their identities in relation to state power. Additionally, she sheds light on modernists'ideas about race, colonialism and the postcolonial, as race came increasingly to be seen as a political and governmental construct. This book offers a powerful critique of key themes for scholars of modernism, American literature and twentieth-century literature
Includes bibliographical references and index
White zombies in the state machinery -- Set in authority: white rulers and white settlers -- Soldiers and traitors: Rebecca West, the world wars and the state subject -- White turkeys, white weddings: the state and the south -- Modernist (pre)occupations: Haiti, primitivism and anti-colonial nationalism
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