Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945

ISBN-13: 9781316638002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 290 str.

Anna Snaith

Opis

This book examines colonial women writers who traveled to London in the modernist period, and the significance of gender to empire and modernism.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Olive Schreiner: diamonds, prostitution and From Man to Man; 2. Sarojini Naidu: feminist nationalism and cross-cultural poetics; 3. Sara Jeannette Duncan: A Canadian Girl in London; 4. Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernism and the magazines; 5. Jean Rhys: 'A Savage from the Cannibal Islands'; 6. Una Marson: 'Little brown girl' in a 'white, white city'; 7. Christina Stead: transnationalism and the sea voyage; Afterword; Bibliography.