Beginning at the end : decadence, modernism, and postcolonial poetry /

In 1857, Charles Baudelaire described the colonial condition as one in which "a nation begins with decadence and starts off where the others leave off." A century later, Frantz Fanon would argue that postcolonial artists were "beginning at the end," following the West's &quo...

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Main Author:	Stilling, Robert, 1977- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:	Decadence (Literary movement) > Developing countries. Postcolonialism and the arts. Postcolonialism in literature.