Modernist voyages : colonial women writers in London, 1890-1945 /
Examines colonial women writers who traveled to London in the modernist period, and the significance of gender to empire and modernism.
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter one. Olive Schreiner: diamonds, prostitution and From man to man
- Chapter two. Sarojini Naidu: feminist nationalism and cross-cultural poetics
- Chapter three. Sara Jeannette Duncan: A Canadian girl in London
- Chapter four. Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernism and the magazines
- Chapter five. Jean Rhys: 'A savage from the Cannibal Islands'
- Chapter six. Una Marson: 'Little brown girl' in a 'White, white city'
- Chapter seven. Christina Stead: transnationalism and the sea voyage
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.