London's literary and cultural scene fostered newly configured forms of feminist anticolonialism during the modernist period. Through their writing in and about the imperial metropolis, colonial ...women authors not only remapped the city, they also renegotiated the position of women within the empire. This book examines the significance of gender to the interwoven nature of empire and modernism. As transgressive figures of modernity, writers such as Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield, Una Marson and Sarojini Naidu brought their own versions of modernity to the capital, revealing the complex ways in which colonial identities 'traveled' to London at the turn of the twentieth century. Anna Snaith's timely and original study provides a new vantage point on the urban metropolis and its artistic communities for scholars and students of literary modernism, gender and postcolonial studies, and English literature more broadly.
Collaboration is often understood as central to modernist literary production. The recent turn to a transnational or globalised understanding of modernism has made attention to collaborations across ...races and cultures all the more pressing. This article attends to the colonial politics of collaboration by exploring a specific instance of a particular genre: the introductions written by white, male, metropolitan modernists to texts by colonial authors. Focusing initially on introductions by Ford Madox Ford, Arthur Symons, Edmund Gosse and W. B. Yeats to texts by Jean Rhys, Sarojini Naidu and Rabindranath Tagore, the article then looks in detail at the prefaces written by E. M. Forster and Leonard Woolf to writing by Mulk Raj Anand (Untouchable, 1935 and Letters on India, 1942). By putting pressure on the term ‘collaboration’ itself – and the frequent slippage to ‘collaborationist’ in relation to scholarship on Anand – this article will investigate the oft-overlooked genre of the introduction to ask questions crucial to the wider study of global modernisms. It will tease out the complex relationships, networks and publishing histories signalled by this conjunction of introduction and text. These prefatory texts are marked by imperial gestures of cultural patronage, framing and mediation but are also the very place where these gestures and hierarchies are contested and overturned.
Artykuł stanowi fragment wprowadzenia do monografii zatytułowanej Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London 1890–1945 (CUP 2014). Została w nim opracowana analityczna podbudowa lektury ...„londyńskiego” pisarstwa kolonialnych kobiet, odbywających w okresie modernizmu „podróż do”, podbudowa, która podkreśla wagę genderu w nowych badaniach nad modernizmem. Artykuł rozpoczyna się namysłem nad kontrastującymi sprawozdaniami z „przybycia” dwóch karaibskich pisarzy: Uny Marson i C.L.R. Jamesa, którzy dotarli do Londynu w 1932 roku. Następnie zostaje zdefiniowany obszar interesującego autorkę artykułu pisarstwa, obejmującego postaci takie jak Jean Rhys, Sarojini Naidu, Katherine Mansfield i Olive Schreiner, jak również sposoby uczestnictwa ich prac w narracjach obronnych dotyczących zarówno genderu, jak i imperium. Powieści, opowiadania i autobiografie autorstwa tej grupy podróżujących kobiet kształtowane są przez politykę feministyczną i antykolonialną. W artykule omówione zostały sposoby uczestnictwa oraz przełamywania przez autorki dominujących dyskursów handlu imperialnego, wyższości serca imperium i kultury wystawiania na pokaz. Pisarki te są figurami nowoczesności, a ich transgresyjna mobilność ujawnia się w ramach przeobrażającego się imperium oraz ewoluujących idei kobiecego związku z tożsamością narodową.
This essay reconsiders the intellectual relationship between Leonard and Virginia Woolf by focusing on the congruence of their writings on empire. It argues for a trans-generic approach by reading ...Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), alongside Leonard’s Empire and Commerce in Africa (1920), for which Virginia carried out extensive research. Leonard has been recognized by scholars as one of the foremost anti-imperialists of the interwar period, but more nuanced attention to the resonance between their work reveals that Virginia anticipated the focus on economic imperialism so crucial to Empire and Commerce. Turning on a phrase that echoes across their writing — “buying cheap and selling dear” — the piece explores the ways in which the Woolfs, in the tradition of J.A. Hobson, exposed and explored the violent capitalist motivations behind colonialism in the search for cheap labour, new markets, and raw goods. Furthermore, in their differing ways, Leonard and Virginia Woolf were attuned to the connections between cultural production and imperial trade networks.
Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine; Trotter, David; Trotter, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature David
1995, 1998-07-02
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One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. The story builds in excitement as two young men on a sailing ...holiday discover a German plot to invade England. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context. - ;`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.' Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the emptiness and boredom of his life in London. He reluctantly accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, the shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. Theregeneration of Carruthers begins as he is initiated into the mysteries of seamanship, but the story builds in excitement as Carruthers and Davies discover a German plot to invade England. Like much contemporary British spy fiction, The Riddle of the Sands reflects the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and the intricacy of its conception and its lucid detail make it a classic of its genre. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context. -.
Snaith asserts the importance of Una Marson, a playwright, poet, journalist, and pan-African activist of the early twentieth century who was born in Jamaica and spent many years in London, to any ...complete understanding of modernist British as well as Caribbean literature. As Snaith writes, "Her almost total erasure from literary and general histories of the period belies her important role in several literary circles and political movements and ignores her complex writings about the experience of being black and female in London." Indeed, even apart from her literary accomplishments, she is well worth study for her involvement with so many important and apparently divergent organizations, including the League of Coloured Peoples, the International Alliance for Woman's Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
(Author)ity abroad: The life writing of colonial nurses Howell, Jessica; Rafferty, Anne Marie; Snaith, Anna
International journal of nursing studies,
September 2011, 2011-Sep, 2011-09-00, 20110901, Volume:
48, Issue:
9
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This paper asserts the significance of nurses’ writing within the developing field of life writing studies. It closely examines selected letters written by nurses in the Colonial Nursing Association ...(CNA) and models pertinent methods of literary analysis, in order to illuminate nurses’ experiences and their skills of self-authorship. The figure of the CNA nurse is an especially rich subject for study: while these women travelled across political and geographical boundaries, they also demonstrated especially flexible and multifaceted ‘travelling’ identities. This essay's subject holds relevance for scholars of healthcare and the humanities, nursing educators, literary critics and medical historians.
This is a discussion article that first establishes the value of narrative analysis in a health care context, specifically in the context of nursing scholarship and practice, and then introduces the relevant history of the CNA. Subsequently, the article analyzes primary texts, in the form of nurses’ letters, demonstrating how CNA nurses participated in and changed ideologies of gender, nation, and empire.
A range of historical and contemporary sources is used to support the goals of this paper, including primary texts such as letters and speeches and secondary material such as literary criticism and colonial histories. The essay is based on research into the first twenty years of the CNA, from approximately 1896 to 1914, with a particular focus on nurses posted to Africa and the Caribbean.
The article uses methods of literary and cultural analysis in order to prove that the study of nurses’ writing has contemporary cross-disciplinary significance.
Women employed by the CNA drew upon traditional forms of colonial rhetoric in depicting their experiences, but also adapted these forms in order to reflect their own personal and professional experiences as nurses abroad. Many CNA nurses embraced adventure, independence and professional and physical challenges. For these traits to be accepted and celebrated within the late nineteenth and early twentieth century cultural imagination indicates that the CNA nurse may have revised concepts of female propriety in her own time, which may cause us to question some of our current assumptions about historical gender roles.
InHearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race, Jane Marcus calls for the Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004) to be brought ‘back to Bloomsbury’ (5), where he lived and worked from the mid 1920s ...to the mid 1940s. Recently, critics have begun to investigate Anand’s position in the leftist circles of interwar London (see Bluemel and Innes), but not specifically his interactions with the Woolfs and the Hogarth Press. Anand was one of several colonial writers involved with the Press; the Trinidadian, Marxist, historian and cultural critic Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901–89), when he made his ‘voyage
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