LEADER 03896nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910786027803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-52767-5 024 7 $a10.7312/maju15694 035 $a(CKB)2670000000326436 035 $a(EBL)949014 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000820801 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12400639 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820801 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10864119 035 $a(PQKB)11412858 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099581 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC949014 035 $a(DE-B1597)459087 035 $a(OCoLC)825181137$z(OCoLC)826853586 035 $a(OCoLC)979628727 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231527675 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL949014 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10663165 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL614712 035 $a(OCoLC)826853586 035 $a(OCoLC)825181137 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000326436 100 $a20120418d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aProse of the world$b[electronic resource] $emodernism and the banality of empire /$fSaikat Majumdar 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15695-2 311 $a0-231-15694-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aEveryday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for people living on the colonial periphery. Saikat Majumdar suggests that this impoverished affective experience of colonial modernity significantly shapes the innovative aesthetics of modernist fiction. Prose of the World explores the global life of this narrative aesthetic, from late-colonial modernism to the present day, focusing on a writer each from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Ranging from James Joyce's deflated epiphanies to Amit Chaudhuri's disavowal of the grand spectacle of postcolonial national allegories, Majumdar foregrounds the banal as a key instinct of modern and contemporary fiction-one that nevertheless remains submerged because of its antithetical relation to literature's intuitive function to engage or excite. Majumdar asks us to rethink the assumption that banality merely indicates an aesthetic failure. If narrative is traditionally enabled by the tremor, velocity, and excitement of the event, the historical and affective lack implied by the banal produces a narrative force that is radically new precisely because it suspends the conventional impulses of narration. 606 $aCommonwealth fiction (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBanality (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 606 $aLiterature and society$zCommonwealth countries$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aCommonwealth fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBanality (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a823/.909 686 $aHM 1071$2rvk 700 $aMajumdar$b Saikat$01496944 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786027803321 996 $aProse of the world$93721883 997 $aUNINA