Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2014

My book explains how colonial and contemporary writers —including Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, and Zadie Smith--have developed, refined, and transformed the salient features of modernist literary form to examine the boundaries of and connections between national communities. Each uses modernist narrative techniques not only to alter perceptions about the unity or cohesion of an artwork ,but also to challenge dominant understandings of what constitutes the unity and

Duke Scholars

Author Aarthi Vadde English