Reading on the edge : exiles, modernities, and cultural transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin

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Reading on the edge : exiles, modernities, and cultural transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin

Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier

State University of New York Press, c2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-207) and index

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Reading on the Edge explores the notion of multiple cultural identity and exile in the work of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and James Baldwin. Focusing on the cultural politics of modernism through the prism of cultural theory, the book reconceives each author's work while at the same time redrawing modernism's traditionally Eurocentric disciplinary boundaries. The book therefore has wide implications for our understanding of modernism and the modernist canon.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Borders, Cultures, and Spatial Politics "Cultural" Studies/"Culture" Studies Culture Studies and New Critical Culture New Criticism and the Sociocultural Role of the University The Politics of Cultural Space Culture Studies, Canon Revision, and Cultural Transformation Culture Studies, Canon Revision, and the Transformation of Culture 2. (An)Other Modernism Exclusionary Modernism and the Politics of Cultural Space "Serious Fictions"/Fictional Realities Post-ing Modernism in the "Other" The Cultural and Spatial Politics of Modernity 3. Marcel mondain, "Marcel," and the Hidden Diaspora: Author, Voyeur, or Both? The Critical/Cultural Perspective "Marcel"/Marcel and the Hidden "I" 4. Stephen Dedalus and the "Swoon of Sin" A Young Scholar "Joyced" or the Cultural Politics of Institutionalization Retrospective: Stephen Dedalus and the "Swoon of Sin" 5. "The Bulldog in My Own Backyard": James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room, and the Rhetoric of Flight Literary Criticism, African-American Literature, and the Legacy of James Baldwin The Flight into Modernity 6. Conclusion Canons, Canonicity, Canonization: Literary "Culture" and the Problem of Otherness Cultural Studies or Transcultural Studies Notes Bibliography Index

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