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Al-Nakib, Mai Basel.

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Transtemporal modernism and postcolonial transmutations.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transtemporal modernism and postcolonial transmutations./
Author:	Al-Nakib, Mai Basel.
Description:	442 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1774.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3134241
ISBN:	0496814699

Transtemporal modernism and postcolonial transmutations.
Al-Nakib, Mai Basel.

Transtemporal modernism and postcolonial transmutations. - 442 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1774.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2004.

This dissertation examines some of the ways modernism was not quite what its reified image as an ahistorical, apolitical, aestheticist, and reactionary movement currently suggests. By analyzing modernism's recent manifestations in postcolonial texts that share some of its formal features, I contend that a "reimaging" of modernism becomes possible. Through the textual figures of the image, humor, and ekphrasis, this study attempts to trace the paradoxical relationship between modernist and postcolonial literatures in order to consider how modernism travels and transmutes in unexpected ways.

ISBN: 0496814699Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Transtemporal modernism and postcolonial transmutations.
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520 $a This dissertation examines some of the ways modernism was not quite what its reified image as an ahistorical, apolitical, aestheticist, and reactionary movement currently suggests. By analyzing modernism's recent manifestations in postcolonial texts that share some of its formal features, I contend that a "reimaging" of modernism becomes possible. Through the textual figures of the image, humor, and ekphrasis, this study attempts to trace the paradoxical relationship between modernist and postcolonial literatures in order to consider how modernism travels and transmutes in unexpected ways.
520 $a Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonian theory of the "virtual" provides an effective vocabulary through which to explain modernism's ongoing, if often ignored, flexibility. Numerous virtual potentials subsist in modernism despite the fact that many of these potentials were never actualized by modernists themselves. The emergence of distinctly modernist styles in postcolonial novels illustrates one of the ways modernism continues to transmute---i.e. to become something other than it was. Modernism's continuing capacity to transmute is precisely what makes it "transtemporal." My objective is not simply to explore how modernism becomes actualized along transmuted postcolonial lines.{09}It is, in addition, to show how, once these new actualizations occur, the image of a past modernism itself transmutes. I argue that certain postcolonial texts actualize virtual components of modernism and, moreover, that these virtual components of modernism can only be perceived through the refracting mirror of such postcolonial actualizations.
520 $a In Chapter 1, "An Image of Imagism," I explore some conjunctions between Pound's Imagist movement and the imperialist objectives of Europe via advertising. In Chapter 2, "A Virtual Modernism," I analyze the influence of T. E. Hulme and Henri Bergson on Imagism to show how the concept of the "image" contains progressive "virtual" attributes despite Pound's imperialist articulation. In Chapter 3, "Between Laughter and Fury: Wyndham Lewis and Salman Rushdie," I trace the figure of humor as it occurs in Lewis's Tarr and Rushdie's Fury to demonstrate modernism's transtemporality. Similarly, in Chapter 4, "From Imagist to Musical Ekphrasis: Ezra Pound and Assia Djebar," I study the figure of ekphrasis in Pound's Imagist theories and Djebar's Fantasia to illustrate postcolonial transmutations of modernist form.
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