Prose of the world

Majumdar, Saikat.

Prose of the world modernism and the banality of empire / [electronic resource] : Saikat Majumdar. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2013. - 232 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.--20th century
Banality (Philosophy) in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Literature and society--History--Commonwealth countries--20th century.


Electronic books.

PR9080.5 / .M35 2013

823/.909