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9780791445426

Reading on the Edge: Exiles, Modernities, and Cultural Transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin

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    9780791445426

  • ISBN10:

    0791445429

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier is Assistant Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural Theory at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Borders, Cultures, and Spatial Politics
1(24)
``Cultural'' Studies/``Culture'' Studies
7(1)
Culture Studies and New Critical Culture
8(1)
New Criticism and the Sociocultural Role of the University
9(2)
The Politics of Cultural Space
11(1)
Culture Studies, Canon Revision, and Cultural Transformation
12(2)
Culture Studies, Canon Revision, and the Transformation of Culture
14(11)
(An)Other Modernism
25(24)
Exclusionary Modernism and the Politics of Cultural Space
25(4)
``Serious Fictions''/Fictional Realities
29(6)
Post-ing Modernism in the ``Other''
35(11)
The Cultural and Spatial Politics of Modernity
46(3)
Marcel mondain, ``Marcel,'' and the Hidden Diaspora: Author, Voyeur, or Both?
49(34)
The Critical/Cultural Perspective
49(9)
``Marcel''/Marcel and the Hidden ``I''
58(25)
Stephen Dedalus and the ``Swoon of Sin''
83(34)
A Young Scholar ``Joyced,'' or the Cultural Politics of Institutionalization
83(13)
Retrospective: Stephen Dedalus and the ``Swoon of Sin''
96(21)
``The Bulldog in My Own Backyard'': James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room, and the Rhetoric of Flight
117(36)
Literary Criticism, African-American Literature, and the Legacy of James Baldwin
117(13)
The Flight into Modernity
130(23)
Conclusion
153(14)
Canons, Canonicity, Canonization: Literary ``Culture'' and the Problem of Otherness
153(7)
Cultural Studies or Transcultural Studies?
160(7)
Notes 167(24)
Bibliography 191(18)
Index 209

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