Prose of the world : modernism and the banality of empire /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Majumdar, Saikat
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Orient Blackswan, 2013
Subjects:	Commonwealth fiction (English) 20th century History and criticism. 3004 Banality (Philosophy) in literature. 3005 Place (Philosophy) in literature. 3006 Narration (Rhetoric) 3007 Literature and society Commonwealth countries History 20th century. 3008
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: poetics of the prosaic -- James Joyce and the banality of refusal -- Katherine Mansfield and the fragility of Pakeha boredom -- The dailiness of trauma and liberation in Zoe Wicomb -- Amit Chaudhuri and the materiality of the mundane -- Epilogue: The uneventful.