Indigenous Vanguards (eBook)

Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism

Ben Conisbee Baer (Autor)

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2019
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54896-0 (ISBN)

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Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical and historical account of the relationships between modern literature, representations of indigeneity, and educative practices in colonial zones from the 192s to the 194s, encompassing the central place of teaching and learning both in modernist aesthetics and on the part of writer-activists.

Ben Conisbee Baer is associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. He translated and introduced Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's landmark modern Bengali novel The Tale of Hansuli Turn (Columbia, 2011).

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Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the question of how to construct an educational practice for all future citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard intellectuals asked, would citizens from diverse subaltern situations be equally enabled to participate in a nonimperial society and world? In circumstances of cultural and social crisis imposed by colonialism, these vanguards sought to refashion modern structures and technologies of public education by actively relating them to residual indigenous collective forms.In Indigenous Vanguards, Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical and historical account of literary engagements with structures and representations of public teaching and learning by cultural vanguards in the colonial world from the 1920s to the 1940s. He shows how modernizing educative projects existed in complex tension with impulses to indigenize national liberation movements, and how this tension manifests as a central aspect of modernist literary practice. Offering new readings of figures such as Alain Locke, Leopold Senghor, Aime Cesaire, D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Baer discloses the limits and openings of modernist representations as they attempt to reach below the fissures of class that produce them. Establishing unexpected connections between languages and regions, Indigenous Vanguards is the first study of modernism and colonialism that encompasses the decisive way public education transformed modernist aesthetics and vanguard politics.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Harlem/Berlin: Shadows of Vanguards Between Prussia and Afro-America2. Négritude (Slight Return): The African Laboratory of Bicephalingualism3. Négritude (Slight Return) II: Aimé Césaire and the Uprooting Apparatus4. Educating Mexico: D. H. Lawrence and Indigenismo Between Postcolonial Horror and Postcolonial Hope5. India Outside India: Gandhi, Fiction, and the Pedagogy of ViolenceNotesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Modernist Latitudes
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54896-6 / 0231548966
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54896-0 / 9780231548960