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Post-colonial Intertexts
Hierarchies of Modernism
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Using Kamel Daoudâs The Meursault Investigation and Juan Gabriel Vásquezâs The Secret History of Costaguana, this book asks you to serve as the jury on euro-modernism, specifically the canonical texts Camusâs The Stranger and Conradâs Nostromo. The book reveals the extent to which euro-modernist aesthetics was culpable in rationalising colonialism.
Geetha Ramanathan is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature which she taught at West Chester University, USA. Her most recent books on modernisms are Locating Gender in Modernism: The Female Outsider (2012), and The Female in German Modernisms: The Visual Turn (2019).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
â1 Intertext and Influence
â2 Women and Euro-Modernism
1 Gendered Historiography and Colonial Euro-Modernist Aesthetics
â1 Access to History
â2 Tropes in History and Narrative
â3 Whose History
â4 âPlotâ and History
â5 Gender and History in the Novels
â6 Conclusion
2 Difference across Colonial/Post-Colonial Authorship
3 Euro-Modernist and Post-Colonial Masquerades
â1 The Detective Story
â2 Female Absence and Presence
â3 Male Absence and Presence
â4 The Post-Colonial Detective
â5 The Crime
â6 The Modernist Masquerade
â7 Woman and Genre
â8 Woman and Big History
â9 Doubles
â10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Romance
4 The Aesthetics and Literary Politics of Commodities
5 Geography and the Gendering of Place
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
â1 Intertext and Influence
â2 Women and Euro-Modernism
1 Gendered Historiography and Colonial Euro-Modernist Aesthetics
â1 Access to History
â2 Tropes in History and Narrative
â3 Whose History
â4 âPlotâ and History
â5 Gender and History in the Novels
â6 Conclusion
2 Difference across Colonial/Post-Colonial Authorship
3 Euro-Modernist and Post-Colonial Masquerades
â1 The Detective Story
â2 Female Absence and Presence
â3 Male Absence and Presence
â4 The Post-Colonial Detective
â5 The Crime
â6 The Modernist Masquerade
â7 Woman and Genre
â8 Woman and Big History
â9 Doubles
â10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Romance
4 The Aesthetics and Literary Politics of Commodities
5 Geography and the Gendering of Place
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Students at the undergraduate and post-graduate level of twentieth century literature, scholars of modernisms and post-colonialism, students and scholars of feminist studies, academic libraries; researchers on intertextuality, professors and students of comparative literature, students at the undergraduate and post-graduate level studying interdisciplinary approaches, students and professors working on cross-cultural comparisons.