Beginning at the end : decadence, modernism, and postcolonial poetry / Robert Stilling.
Beginning at the end : decadence, modernism, and postcolonial poetry / Robert Stilling.
Beginning at the end : decadence, modernism, and postcolonial poetry / Robert Stilling.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/3492
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English
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384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Decadence and decolonization -- Agha Shahid Ali, Oscar Wilde, and the politics of form for form's sake -- Decadence and the visual arts in Derek Walcott's West Indies -- Decadence and antirealism in the art of Yinka Shonibare -- Bernardine Evaristo's silver age poetics -- Decadence and...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Massachusetts
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2018.
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In 1857, Charles Baudelaire described the colonial condition as one in which "a nation begins with decadence and starts off where the others leave off." A century later, Frantz Fanon would argue that postcolonial artists were "beginning at the end," following the West's "path of negation and decadence" while skipping the inventive phase of youth. I...
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Beginning at the end : decadence, modernism, and postcolonial poetry / Robert Stilling.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/3492
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74VKVApy3aN3
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0674984439 hardcover alkaline paper
9780674984431 hardcover alkaline paper
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809.911
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991024172188702626
