TY - BOOK AU - Majumdar,Saikat ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Prose of the world: modernism and the banality of empire AV - PR9080.5 .M35 2013eb U1 - 823/.909 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Commonwealth fiction (English) KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Banality (Philosophy) in literature KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Literature and society KW - Commonwealth countries KW - History KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: poetics of the prosaic -- James Joyce and the banality of refusal -- Katherine Mansfield and the fragility of Pakeha boredom -- The dailiness of trauma and liberation in Zoe Wicomb -- Amit Chaudhuri and the materiality of the mundane -- Epilogue: The uneventful; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10663165 ER -