Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female

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Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female

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This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-world authors have reshaped received notions of the modern and revised orthodox ideas on the modern aesthetic.

ISBN

978-0415509701

Publication Date

5-9-2012

Publisher

Routledge

City

New York

Keywords

Modernism, gender, women authors, third-world authors, Bessie Head, Josiane Racine, T.Obinkaram Echewa, Raja Rao, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sembene Ousmane, Salman Rushdie, Ana Castillo, Attia Hossain, Bapsi Sidhwa, Sahar Khalifeh

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Comparative Literature

Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female

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