Publications [#303315] of Aarthi Vadde

Books

1. Vadde, A. Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2014. Columbia University Press, 2016.
   (last updated on 2023/06/01)

   Abstract:
   My book explains how colonial and contemporary writers —including Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, and Zadie Smith--have developed, refined, and transformed the salient features of modernist literary form to examine the boundaries of and connections between national communities. Each uses modernist narrative techniques not only to alter perceptions about the unity or cohesion of an artwork ,but also to challenge dominant understandings of what constitutes the unity and