Race and the modernist imagination
"In Race and the Modernist Imagination, Urmila Seshagiri makes a capacious case that the aesthetics of Anglo-British modernism are fundamentally shaped by a racial imagination. She argues persuasively that race operates not only as a theme in modernist texts but also as a structuring aesthetic force within colonial frameworks, including in stories of wayward or unsettled English identities. In surprising juxtapositions, Seshagiri finds race embedded in texts where we might not suspect it (such at The Good Soldier and To the Lighthouse) and in popular texts where it operates in unexpected forms below the surface of crude racial polarizations (as in the Fu Manchu stories)."--Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts, author of Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture
Print Book, English, 2010
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2010