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Race and the modernist imagination

Title
Race and the modernist imagination / Urmila Seshagiri.
Author
Seshagiri, Urmila, 1971-
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.

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Description
xiii, 251 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Race and the emergence of metropolitan modernism. Conrad, Wilde, and race at the fin de siècle ; Modernity's (yellow) perils: Dr. Fu-Manchu and English race paranoia -- Race and rupture: the London avant-garde. The cave of the golden calf ; The negress and the vortex ; "A race that will have no successors": The good soldier and the discontinuities of modernity ; Katherine Mansfield, race, and the appearance of an aesthetic -- Orienting Virginia Woolf. Reading Woolf, reading race ; Lily Briscoe's Chinese eyes ; "Slicing at the head of a Moor".
Call Number
Sc E 10-1091
ISBN
  • 9780801448218 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801448212 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2009041329
  • 40017963015
OCLC
320799040
Author
Seshagiri, Urmila, 1971-
Title
Race and the modernist imagination / Urmila Seshagiri.
Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40017963015
Research Call Number
Sc E 10-1091
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