東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Unfinished modernities: Bakhtin and ...

Smith, Eric D.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Unfinished modernities: Bakhtin and the modernist novel in postcolonial literatures (M. M. Bakhtin, James Joyce, Ireland, G. V. Desani, India, Robert Antoni, Trinidad and Tobago, Bessie Head, South Africa).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Unfinished modernities: Bakhtin and the modernist novel in postcolonial literatures (M. M. Bakhtin, James Joyce, Ireland, G. V. Desani, India, Robert Antoni, Trinidad and Tobago, Bessie Head, South Africa)./
Author:	Smith, Eric D.
Description:	194 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1777.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3135218
ISBN:	0496824422

Unfinished modernities: Bakhtin and the modernist novel in postcolonial literatures (M. M. Bakhtin, James Joyce, Ireland, G. V. Desani, India, Robert Antoni, Trinidad and Tobago, Bessie Head, South Africa).
Smith, Eric D.

Unfinished modernities: Bakhtin and the modernist novel in postcolonial literatures (M. M. Bakhtin, James Joyce, Ireland, G. V. Desani, India, Robert Antoni, Trinidad and Tobago, Bessie Head, South Africa). - 194 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1777.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2004.

In this dissertation I suggest that the modernist novel and Bakhtin's novel of the second stylistic line are equally borne out of the crises and aporias of the onset of capitalist modernization, that Bakhtin's privileged genre is, in fact, modernist. I argue that in the latter twentieth century the usefulness (and necessity) of the novel genre follows the erratic patterns of capitalist modernization and, therefore, that the modernist novel's ambivalent double-voiced response to and articulation of the necessarily unstable state of modernization emerges in the literatures of the so-called Third World. Rather than read this emergence in terms of modernization or developmental theory, however, I deploy Immanuel Wallerstein's notion of capitalism as an economic world system to contextualize and, in some regards, temper the theories of modernity advanced by thinkers including Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, S. N. Eisenstadt, Andrew Feenberg, and others. My central focus here is upon the literatures of former European colonies, including works from Ireland, India, Trinidad, and South Africa. Beginning with James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, I suggest that Joyce's ambivalent aesthetic response to modernization in an epoch of Irish decolonization and reactionary nationalism becomes the paradigm for subsequent postcolonial modernist texts. Thus, with G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr (1948), we have the appearance of what Gary Saul Morson designates the crucial genre-formative second work, a critical reauthoring that crystallizes the basic shape this new genre will take in its current manifestation. While maintaining this uneasy correlation with its predecessors, however, the postcolonial modernist novel never simply rehearses the structure and content of its founding texts. Rather, each manifestation of the genre concerns itself with the social, ethical, and epistemological exigencies of its own unique present. Therefore, Robert Antoni's Divina Trace can critically explore ethnic diversity in a modernizing Trinidad, while Bessie Head contemplates the conundrums of ethics, race, gender, and exile in A Question of Power. In this way, the novels selected here concern themselves with a series of issues both specific to their various unique global/historical contexts and, simultaneously, shared within the broader context of capitalist modernization following decolonization.

ISBN: 0496824422Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

Unfinished modernities: Bakhtin and the modernist novel in postcolonial literatures (M. M. Bakhtin, James Joyce, Ireland, G. V. Desani, India, Robert Antoni, Trinidad and Tobago, Bessie Head, South Africa).
LDR:03511nmm 2200325 4500 001 1848968
005 20051202085217.5
008 130614s2004 eng d
020 $a 0496824422
035 $a (UnM)AAI3135218
035 $a AAI3135218
040 $a UnM $c UnM
100 1 $a Smith, Eric D. $3 1936956
245 1 0 $a Unfinished modernities: Bakhtin and the modernist novel in postcolonial literatures (M. M. Bakhtin, James Joyce, Ireland, G. V. Desani, India, Robert Antoni, Trinidad and Tobago, Bessie Head, South Africa).
300 $a 194 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1777.
500 $a Chair: R. Brandon Kershner.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2004.
520 $a In this dissertation I suggest that the modernist novel and Bakhtin's novel of the second stylistic line are equally borne out of the crises and aporias of the onset of capitalist modernization, that Bakhtin's privileged genre is, in fact, modernist. I argue that in the latter twentieth century the usefulness (and necessity) of the novel genre follows the erratic patterns of capitalist modernization and, therefore, that the modernist novel's ambivalent double-voiced response to and articulation of the necessarily unstable state of modernization emerges in the literatures of the so-called Third World. Rather than read this emergence in terms of modernization or developmental theory, however, I deploy Immanuel Wallerstein's notion of capitalism as an economic world system to contextualize and, in some regards, temper the theories of modernity advanced by thinkers including Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, S. N. Eisenstadt, Andrew Feenberg, and others. My central focus here is upon the literatures of former European colonies, including works from Ireland, India, Trinidad, and South Africa. Beginning with James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, I suggest that Joyce's ambivalent aesthetic response to modernization in an epoch of Irish decolonization and reactionary nationalism becomes the paradigm for subsequent postcolonial modernist texts. Thus, with G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr (1948), we have the appearance of what Gary Saul Morson designates the crucial genre-formative second work, a critical reauthoring that crystallizes the basic shape this new genre will take in its current manifestation. While maintaining this uneasy correlation with its predecessors, however, the postcolonial modernist novel never simply rehearses the structure and content of its founding texts. Rather, each manifestation of the genre concerns itself with the social, ethical, and epistemological exigencies of its own unique present. Therefore, Robert Antoni's Divina Trace can critically explore ethnic diversity in a modernizing Trinidad, while Bessie Head contemplates the conundrums of ethics, race, gender, and exile in A Question of Power. In this way, the novels selected here concern themselves with a series of issues both specific to their various unique global/historical contexts and, simultaneously, shared within the broader context of capitalist modernization following decolonization.
590 $a School code: 0070.
650 4 $a Literature, Modern. $3 624011
650 4 $a Literature, Comparative. $3 530051
650 4 $a Literature, English. $3 1017709
650 4 $a Literature, Caribbean. $3 1019116
650 4 $a Literature, African. $3 1022872
650 4 $a Literature, Asian. $3 1017599
690 $a 0298
690 $a 0295
690 $a 0593
690 $a 0360
690 $a 0316
690 $a 0305
710 2 0 $a University of Florida. $3 718949
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 65-05A.
790 1 0 $a Kershner, R. Brandon, $e advisor
790 $a 0070
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2004
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3135218