Modernism, Modernity and Imperialism
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Modernism and empire entertain symbiotic, ambiguous relationships. They influence and feed upon each other in ways not always sufficiently acknowledged in postcolonial criticism. In their introduction to Modernism and Empire , Howard Booth and Nigel Rigby complain about the postcolonial scholars’ neglect of the interrelations between modernism and empire, stating that ‘modernism and Post-colonial studies are both seen in ways that have militated against the consideration of modernism and empire’ (2000, 1). They go on to assert: ‘Colonial discourse theory tends to end its analysis in the early twentieth century, while work on contemporary post-colonial issues usually begins with the widespread decolonisation that followed the Second World War: the literary texts examined are therefore early and foundational texts and contemporary writing’ (1). According to the editors, texts such as Heart of Darkness and A Passage to India ‘have been used, especially in the teaching of modernism, to establish a peripheral theme of race and colonialism in the period’ (1).
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Acheraïou, A. (2008). Modernism, Modernity and Imperialism. In: Rethinking Postcolonialism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583573_7
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Modernism has become ideological. Ideology tends to keep reality from being understood. It is a kind of deception. Other critics focus on stylistic differences. Try to define modernism by style. But the real difference is in ideology. The same stylistic device can be used in Realistic and Anti-realistic ways. Eg.
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