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20139281 |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20181218141933.0 |
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171031s2018 maua b 001 0 eng c |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2017047224 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780674984431 |
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
Terms of availability |
Purchased |
Note |
Prism Books,Kadavanthra |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
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pcc |
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809.911 |
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Stilling, Robert |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
BEGINNING ATH THE END : |
Remainder of title |
decadence, modernism, and postcolonial poetry / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Robert Stilling. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1 |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Harvard University Press |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2018/01/01 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Size of unit |
384 |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Summary: <br/>In 1857, Charles Baudelaire described the colonial condition as one in which "a nation begins with decadence and starts off where the others leave off." A century later, Frantz Fanon would argue that postcolonial artists were "beginning at the end," following the West's "path of negation and decadence" while skipping the inventive phase of youth. In Beginning at the End, Robert Stilling argues that for writers and artists such as Chinua Achebe, Agha Shahid Ali, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Yinka Shonibare, Bernardine Evaristo, and Derek Mahon, the notion of being caught between the decadence of Europe and the unformed possibilities of postcolonial cultures marks the founding condition for a postcolonial poetics. For these figures, the idea of decadence would haunt their attempts to carve out a place for the arts in postcolonial society, forcing them to negotiate between their own sense of the demands of art and the pressure to conform to a revolutionary politics. In reimagining the role of poetry and the visual arts in the formation of national cultures, these artists turned toward the oppositional politics and anti-realist aesthetics of writers such as Oscar Wilde to affirm a commitment to artifice and the imagination while fending off the charge of decadence associated with modernism and the idea of art for art's sake. Taking a transnational approach, Beginning at the End expands the study of literary decadence beyond fin-de-siècle Europe, and demonstrates the continuing importance to postcolonial thought of figures such as Oscar Wilde, Henry James, J.-K. Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Max Beerbohm |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Introduction: Decadence and decolonization -- Agha Shahid Ali, Oscar Wilde, and the politics of form for form's sake -- Decadence and the visual arts in Derek Walcott's West Indies -- Decadence and anti-realism in the art of Yinka Shonibare -- Bernardine Evaristo's silver-age poetics -- Decadence and the archive in Derek Mahon's The yellow book -- Conclusion: Dandies at the gate. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Decadence (Literary movement) |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Postcolonialism and the arts. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Postcolonialism in literature. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Developing countries |
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Reference |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
In 1857, Charles Baudelaire described the colonial condition as one in which "a nation begins with decadence and starts off where the others leave off." A century later, Frantz Fanon would argue that postcolonial artists were "beginning at the end," following the West's "path of negation and decadence" while skipping the inventive phase of youth. In Beginning at the End, Robert Stilling argues that for writers and artists such as Chinua Achebe, Agha Shahid Ali, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Yinka Shonibare, Bernardine Evaristo, and Derek Mahon, the notion of being caught between the decadence of Europe and the unformed possibilities of postcolonial cultures marks the founding condition for a postcolonial poetics. For these figures, the idea of decadence would haunt their attempts to carve out a place for the arts in postcolonial society, forcing them to negotiate between their own sense of the demands of art and the pressure to conform to a revolutionary politics. In reimagining the role of poetry and the visual arts in the formation of national cultures, these artists turned toward the oppositional politics and anti-realist aesthetics of writers such as Oscar Wilde to affirm a commitment to artifice and the imagination while fending off the charge of decadence associated with modernism and the idea of art for art's sake. Taking a transnational approach, Beginning at the End expands the study of literary decadence beyond fin-de-siècle Europe, and demonstrates the continuing importance to postcolonial thought of figures such as Oscar Wilde, Henry James, J.-K. Huysmans, Walter Pater, and Max Beerbohm.-- |
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Developing countries. |
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