LEADER 04743nam 2200877Ia 450 001 9910777729403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08729-0 010 $a9786612087295 010 $a1-4008-2683-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826834 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756235 035 $a(EBL)445456 035 $a(OCoLC)355601218 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000266386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11210269 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10304089 035 $a(PQKB)10392328 035 $a(OCoLC)857638250 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36175 035 $a(DE-B1597)446286 035 $a(OCoLC)979576701 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826834 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445456 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284213 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208729 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445456 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756235 100 $a20050330d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUtopian generations$b[electronic resource] $ethe political horizon of twentieth-century literature /$fNicholas Brown 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aTranslation/transnation 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12211-3 311 $a0-691-12212-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-230) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart 1. Subjectivity -- $tPart 2. History -- $tPart 3. Politics -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aUtopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is their disposition toward Utopia or "the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations.? Grounded in a profound rethinking of the Hegelian Marxist tradition, this fluently written book takes as its point of departure the partial displacement during the twentieth century of capitalism's "internal limit" (classically conceived as the conflict between labor and capital) onto a geographic division of labor and wealth. Dispensing with whole genres of commonplace contemporary pieties, Brown examines works from both sides of this division to create a dialectical mapping of different modes of Utopian aesthetic practice. The theory of world literature developed in the introduction grounds the subtle and powerful readings at the heart of the book--focusing on works by James Joyce, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ford Madox Ford, Chinua Achebe, Wyndham Lewis, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Pepetela. A final chapter, arguing that this literary dialectic has reached a point of exhaustion, suggests that a radically reconceived notion of musical practice may be required to discern the Utopian desire immanent in the products of contemporary culture. 410 0$aTranslation/transnation. 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and African 606 $aComparative literature$xAfrican and English 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zAfrica 606 $aPolitics in literature 606 $aUtopias in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature$xEnglish and African. 615 0$aComparative literature$xAfrican and English. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aPolitics in literature. 615 0$aUtopias in literature. 676 $a820.9358 700 $aBrown$b Nicholas$f1971-$01378159 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777729403321 996 $aUtopian generations$93840295 997 $aUNINA