Modernism, Empire, World Literature
- ISBN-10
- 1108492355
- ISBN-13
- 9781108492355
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-06-17
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Joe Cleary
Description
Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms helped remake the twentieth-century world literary system.
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