Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature

by Nicholas Brown and Nicholas Brown

Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally na?ve vis-?-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-?-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691122121
• ISBN13: 9780691122120
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"