Utopian generations : the political horizon of twentieth-century literature /
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| Author / Creator: | Brown, Nicholas, 1971- |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005. |
| Description: | viii, 235 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Translation/transnation |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5778395 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Modernism and African literature
- In defense of totality
- The eidaesthetic itinerary
- The modernist sublime
- The African prise de parole
- All theory is postcolonial theory
- Totality, allegory, and history
- Utopian generations
- Part 1. Subjectivity
- Chapter 2. Ulysses: The Modernist Sublime
- Ulysses, history, and form
- Ulysses and the modernist sublime
- "Eumaeus": the sublimity of the banal and the banality of the sublime
- "Ithaca": the becoming-meaning of information and the becoming-information of meaning
- Chapter 3. Ambiguous Adventure: Authenticity's Aftermath
- Ambiguous Adventure and Modernism
- Ambiguous Adventure, authenticity, and death
- Heidegger as ethnophilosopher
- Tempels's Bantu and Heidegger's Greeks
- Reification and the work of the colonized
- The privatization of utopia
- Part 2. History
- Chapter 4. The Good Soldier and Parade's End: Absolute Nostalgia
- Why Ford Madox Ford's novels can only be read once
- Conrad, Ford, and literary impressionism
- The Good Soldier: absolute nostalgia
- Parade's End: absolute and conventional nostalgia
- Chapter 5. Arrow of God: The Totalizing Gaze
- The Achebe-event
- Achebe and the image of Africa
- Yeats, Eliot, and Achebe: the poetics of disaster
- Arrow of God as general allegory
- The image of Africa revisited
- Arrow of God as total allegory
- Part 3. Politics
- Chapter 6. The Childermass: Revolution and Reaction
- Wyndham Lewis, fascism, and the critique of liberalism
- The Childermass and revolution: the embodied cliche
- The Childermass and reaction: imperialism and the strong personality
- The reaction in revolution and the revolution in reaction
- Chapter 7. Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Pepetela: Revolution and Retrenchment
- The Trial of Dedan Kimathi and the ambivalence of Mau Mau
- Kamiriithu, the Kenyan theater apparatus, and the neocolonial state
- A Geracao da Utopia, I Will Marry When I Want, and national tragedy
- A new generation of utopia: the multitude and musical form
- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Postmodernism as Semiperipheral Symptom
- The eidaesthetic itinerary continued
- Bossaposbossa
- The aesthetic ideology of bossa nova
- Four options for cultural production on the semiperiphery
- 1964 and the end of modernism
- Tropicalia, or bread and circuses?
- Notes