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the violent aesthetic and twentieth-century literature
An assessment of global literature in the twentieth century, a century defined by trauma.
The violent aesthetic: an introduction -- I. Lyric poetry. Witnessing and trophy hunting: writing violence from the great war trenches -- Real violence: W. B. Yeats and the Easter Rising -- Mimetic damage: the poetry of Northern Ireland's troubles -- II. Postcolonial novels. Partition's children: ethnic cleansing on the Indian subcontinent -- Slow tyranny: entangled allegory in recent Nigerian novels -- III. Testimonial. "Going through with it": Holocaust memoir and the challenge of beauty -- Apartheid spectacle: race, drama, and South Africa's state of emergency.
Includes bibliographical references and index.