Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945London's literary and cultural scene fostered newly configured forms of feminist anticolonialism during the modernist period. Through their writing in and about the imperial metropolis, colonial women authors not only remapped the city, they also renegotiated the position of women within the empire. This book examines the significance of gender to the interwoven nature of empire and modernism. As transgressive figures of modernity, writers such as Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Una Marson and Sarojini Naidu brought their own versions of modernity to the capital, revealing the complex ways in which colonial identities 'traveled' to London at the turn of the twentieth century. Anna Snaith's timely and original study provides a new vantage point on the urban metropolis and its artistic communities for scholars and students of literary modernism, gender and postcolonial studies, and English literature more broadly. |
Contents
Olive Schreiner Diamonds Prostitution and From | 36 |
Sarojini Naidu Feminist Nationalism and Cross | 67 |
SaraJeannette Duncan A Canadian Girl in London | 90 |
Katherine Mansfield Colonial Modernism and | 110 |
Jean Rhys A Savage from the Cannibal Islands | 133 |
Una Marson Little Brown Girl in a White | 152 |
Christina Stead Transnationalism and the | 175 |
Afterword | 201 |
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