Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 by Vadde, Aarthi
Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 by Vadde, Aarthi

Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016

In the years following World War I, the "international" emerged as a distinct scale of political and...
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Author: Aarthi Vadde
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Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 by Vadde, Aarthi

Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016

$94.01
Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 by Vadde, Aarthi

Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016

$94.01
Author: Aarthi Vadde
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In the years following World War I, the "international" emerged as a distinct scale of political and cultural focus. Internationalisms proliferated in kind as writers and thinkers sought to imagine modes of cooperation that would balance transnational solidarities with national sovereignty. While so-called political realists across the twentieth century have regarded such attempts as wishful thinking, Aarthi Vadde argues that the negotiation of wishing and thinking is at the very heart of internationalism. In Chimeras of Form, she shows why modernist literary form is essential to understanding the aspirational and analytical force of internationalism in and beyond Europe.

Major writers such as Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, George Lamming, Michael Ondaatje, and Zadie Smith use modernist strategies to reshape how readers think about the cohesion and interrelation of political communities in the wake of empire. Vadde lucidly explains how their formal experiments with the novel, short story, poetry, and political essay contribute to and sometimes even anticipate debates in postcolonial theory and cosmopolitanism. She reads Joyce's use of asymmetrical narratives as a way to ask questions about international camaraderie, and demonstrates how the "plotless" works of McKay and Lamming upturn ideas of citizenship and diasporic alienation. Her analysis of twenty-first-century writers Smith and Shailja Patel shows how ongoing conflicts around migration, displacement, and global economic inequality link modernist, postcolonial, and contemporary traditions of literature. Vadde brings these traditions together to reveal the dual nature of internationalism as an ambition, possibly a chimeric one, and an actual political discourse vital to understanding our present moment.

Author: Aarthi Vadde
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 11/06/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780231180252

About the Author
Aarthi Vadde is associate professor of English at Duke University.
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