This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa's encounter with Europe but a project in continuity in contemporary history of Africa, where history has become a location of struggle and meaning, a location of power and domination. Eze contends that postcolonial African studies that thrive by way of unanimity, analogy, or homogenenity are merely advancing a "defeatist" historicism. It attempts to gain essence by inverting the terms of colonial discourse and is decisively implicated in the...
This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa'...
"Superb. Vetter's incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women's late modernist literary production as advancing specifically hybrid works located at the juncture of personal, national, and nationalist concerns."--Cynthia Hogue, coeditor of The Sword Went Out to Sea "This edition, with its finely written introduction and meticulous annotation, opens up new understandings of H.D., the major modernist writer, as she meditates, postwar, on the inner life of Shakespeare, the icon of English literature, and on the women missing from his plays. A...
"Superb. Vetter's incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women's late modernist literary production as advancing speci...
Superb. Vetter s incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women s late modernist literary production as advancing specifically hybrid works located at the juncture of personal, national, and nationalist concerns. Cynthia Hogue, coeditor of The Sword Went Out to Sea This edition, with its finely written introduction and meticulous annotation, opens up new understandings of H.D., the major modernist writer, as she meditates, postwar, on the inner life of Shakespeare, the icon of English literature, and on the women missing from his plays. A beautiful...
Superb. Vetter s incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women s late modernist literary production as advancing specif...
"Demonstrating how literary aspects of H.D.'s late prose contribute to politically-attuned cultural work, Vetter astutely counters longstanding claims about H.D.'s 'escapism.'"--Miranda Hickman, coeditor of Rereading the New Criticism "An important, meticulously researched treatment of H.D.'s post-WWII writing that helps us understand her multiple genre-bending and time warping moves."--Madelyn Detloff, author of The Value of Virginia Woolf A Curious Peril examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.D. in the aftermath of World War II, a little-known body of work that has been neglected...
"Demonstrating how literary aspects of H.D.'s late prose contribute to politically-attuned cultural work, Vetter astutely counters longstanding claims...
