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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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Decadence and decolonization
- Agha Shahid Ali, Oscar Wilde, and the politics of form for form's sake
- Decadence and the visual arts in Derek Walcott's West Indies
- Decadence and antirealism in the art of Yinka Shonibare
- Bernardine Evaristo's silver age poetics
- Decadence and the archive in Derek Mahon's The yellow Book
- Conclusion: Dandies at the gate.