New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite ( New World Studies Series)
James Clifford tells us that modernism has become a "traveling culture" because it reflects the "discrepant cosmopolitanism" of the twentieth century – that is, a world in which people are paradoxically migratory yet rooted, international yet local. Perhaps modernism has traveled so well because it has been transformed by its journey; this is the suggestion Charles Pollard makes in New World Modernisms, a fascinating first step in mapping the migration of modernism.\ Pollard looks to recent...
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Caribbean poets Walcott and Brathwaite took US poet Eliot (1888-1965) as a major, though not exclusive, model for what modernism was, says literature scholar Pollard (John Brown U.). They were coming into the prime of their writing careers as he was ending his, and the account here discusses borrowings and translations across generations, race, and conditions of previous colonialism. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1Postcolonial modernism/modernist postcolonialism152"Not borrowers, but bearers of a tradition"413Listening to Eliot : poetic revolution and common speech794Public poets139
\ Laurence BreinerNew World Modernisms makes a contribution that is both substantial and significant to scholarship in two spheres: Anglophone Caribbean literature in the larger context of postcolonial theory, and modernism...A stimulating and provocative book.\ \ \
