Empire's wake : postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form

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Introduction. Rerouting Irish modernism: postcolonial aesthetics and the imperative of cosmopolitanism -- Modernity's edge: speaking silence on the blaskets -- Seán O'Faoláin and the end of republican realism -- Unnaming the subject: Samuel Beckett and postcolonial absence -- Postmodern blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the celtic tiger, and the ashes of history -- Conclusion. Dispatches from the modernist frontier: European and Asiatic papers.

Postcolonial poetics : genre and form

Francophone Postcolonial Studies. New series ;

Francophone postcolonial studies ;

Literary form and the politics of interpretation. 'New world' exiles and ironists from Évariste Parny to Ananda Devi / ' ... without losing sight of the whole' : Said and Goethe / Metaphorical memories : Freud, Conrad and the Dark Continent / Playing the field/performing 'the personal' in Maryse Condé's interviews / Writing subjectivity, crossing borders. A concern peculiar to western man? Postcolonial reconsiderations of autobiography as genre / Still besieged by voices : Djebar's poetics of the threshold / Algerian letters : mixture, genres, literature itself / How to speak about it? Kateb Yacine's feminine voice or literature's wager : a reading of Nedjima / The rise of the récit d'enfance in the Francophone Caribbean / Reinventing the legacies of genre. The tragedy of decolonization : dialectics at a standstill / J.M. Coetzee's Australian realism / Ambivalence and ambiguity of the short story in Albert Camus's 'L'hôte' and Mohammed Dib's 'La fin' / Writing against genocide : genres of opposition in narratives from and about Rwanda

Modernist futures : innovation and inheritance in the contemporary novel

The postcolonial unconscious

A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England

The sense of community in French Caribbean fiction

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;

The legacies of modernism : historicising postwar and contemporary fiction

Introduction: mapping modernist continuities / Early Legacies: Inheriting Modernism at Mid-Century and Beyond: Not what it used to be: nostalgia and the legacies of modernism / H.E. Bates, regionalism and late modernism / Moving beyond modernism in the fiction of B.S. Johnson: charting influences and comparisons / Modernist Aesthetics in Transition: Character, Perception, Innovation: Thinking in literature: modernism and contemporary neuroscience / Autonomous automata: opacity and the fugitive character in the modernist novel and after / Pseudo-impressionism? / 'Advancing along the inherited path': Milan Kundera, Philip Roth and the idea of being traditionally new / Reassessing the Ethics of Modernist Fiction: A complex legacy: modernity's uneasy discourse of ethics and responsibility / 'A renewed sense of difficulty': E.M. Forster, Iris Murdoch and Zadie Smith on ethics and form / Modernism's Global Afterlives: Representing slums and home: Chris Abani's Graceland / For translation: Virginia Woolf, J.M. Coetzee and transnational comparison / Epilogue: finding the dreadfully real