Introduction: Anxious Mastery and the Forms It Takes -- Troubling Classifications: Unspeakable Figures of MeĢtissage in "Melanctha" and Disgrace -- Troubling Sovereignties: Intimations of Relation in The Waste Land and Cahier d'un retour au pays natal -- Traversing Bounds of Historical Memory: Dethroning the Narrator and Creolizing Testimony in A Passage to India and Texaco -- Traversing Bounds of Solidarity: Poor Analogies and Painful Negotiations in Three Guineas and The Farming of Bones -- Conclusion: The Beauty of a Trembling World.
Summary:
"Many previous studies of modernity read colonial or postcolonial texts through the lens of critical theories originating in Europe or North America, but author Mara de Gennaro undertakes a comparative literary approach in which she juxtaposes a canonical anglophone modernist writer with an anglophone or francophone postcolonial writer. She models a new critical approach for relating modernism to postcolonialism"-- Provided by publisher.
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