In The Idea of a Colony, Edward Marx provides a comprehensive approach to the question of cross-culturalism in modern poetry. He situates the work of canonical British and American modernist poets - Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Brooke, Kipling, and Flecker - in dialogue with the work of non-Western, colonial, and minority poets - Tagore, Naidu, Violet Nicolson - and brings into the discussion the poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
Drawing on psychological and cultural theory, Marx argues that primitivism and exoticism were the main forms of cross-culturalism in the modern period, and that these forms were organized around repression of the unconscious and irrational. To the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others. The result is a series of powerful new readings of canonical modernists and a welcome expansion of the field of modern poetry into the age of multiculturalism and postcoloniality.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 821.009/3552
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442681477
- LCCN
- PN1271
- LCCN Item number
- M37 2004eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 213 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600984 (OCoLC)244768802 (CaOOCEL)418549
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction 12
- 1 The Spell of Far Arabia: James Elroy Flecker's Islamic Near East 25
- 2 The Ends of the Earth: Rudyard Kipling's Afghanistan 35
- 3 The Exotic Transgressions of 'Laurence Hope' 48
- 4 Everybody's Anima: Sarojini Naidu as Nightingale and Nationalist 58
- 5 The Tagore Era 72
- 6 The Childhood That Never Was: Rupert Brooke's Primitive Paradise 93
- 7 The Infant Gargantua on the Wet, Black Bough: Ezra Pound's Chinese Object Relations 105
- 8 The Red Man in the Drawing Room: T.S. Eliot and the Nativists 128
- 9 The Last Nostalgia: Wallace Stevens in the Shadow of the Other 145
- 10 Forgotten Jungle Songs: Ambivalent Primitivisms of the Harlem Renaissance 172
- Notes 188
- Index 214
- A 214
- B 214
- C 215
- D 215
- E 216
- F 216
- G 216
- H 217
- I 217
- J 217
- K 218
- L 218
- M 218
- N 219
- O 219
- P 219
- Q 220
- R 220
- S 221
- T 221
- U 222
- V 222
- W 222
- Y 222
- Z 222
