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access, “The Embassy of Cambodia” and, 192–193
aesthetic individualism, Joyce and, 31
aestheticist literature, servants in, 87
aesthetic judgment, ethnic distinction as artifacts of, 70
aesthetic representation, social upheaval and limits of, 1–2
“After the Race” (Joyce), 83–90, 94
agency, mediated nature of, 222–223
Ali, Maulana Mohamed, 70–71
Amnesty International, 176
Anandamath (Chatterjee), 61
Anil’s Ghost (Ondaatje), 32–33, 149, 163–181; archival materials used in, 164–166, 176; archival method and, 153, 176–177; context for, 163–164; destruction of Bodhisattva sculptures and, 175–176; endings in, 180; gender violence and, 170; globalist and localist response to national fracturing, 164; historical standards of significance and, 166–167; human rights principles and, 168–169; memory and, 164, 167, 168; myth and ethical relativism in, 169–170; mythistorical and, 174–175; nostalgia in, 179; reconstruction of fractured Buddha and, 178–180; significance of remains, 166–168; temporality in, 169, 170; time capsule metaphor in, 177–178; use of collage in, 165
animals, historical significance of remains, 166–167
anthology: battle between method and content and, 46; nationalism and, 42, 43; Nationalism and, 42–43
anticolonialism, Joyce and, 93–94
anticolonial nationalism, 48
anticolonial theory of internationalism, 13–14
anticolonial time, deep time and, 172–174
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 3–4
appropriation, nationalism and, 50–51
Arcades Project, The (Benjamin), 144–145
archaeological surround of a fact, 169
Archaeology of Knowledge, The (Foucault), 152
archival legends, Ondaatje’s use of, 32–33
assimilation, selectivity of, 50–51
“Author as Producer, The” (Benjamin), 90
authorship, democratic nationhood and, 194–195
autonomy: rethinking, 19; Russian avant-garde ideology of, 35–36; in Swadeshi movement, 66
autotranslation, 7–8; chimeras of form and Tagore and, 73; compiling Nationalism and, 42–58; of The Home and the World, 58–68; interplay of illegibility and translatability in, 23; of “The Sunset of the Century,” 53–58; Tagore and, 23, 30–31, 39, 40–41, 73. See also Tagore, Rabindranath
Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (McKay), 20, 25, 32, 116; grimoire form of, 132–133; international nomadism and, 129; jazz and, 127–129, 130–132; “Jelly Roll,” 127–129, 131; negative structural grammar in, 119–120; plotlessness of, 133; rejection of racial consciousness in, 118; reviews of, 118–119; role of music in, 125–129, 130–132; vagabondage and, 120–123, 125, 133–134; youthfulness and, 121–122
Bengali origins of “The Sunset of the Century,” 53–54
Bengali poems, translation of, 73
Bibliothèque Nationale, 152
Billy the Kid and the Princess (pulp novel), 158
black collectivity, limitation of nation-centered paradigms for, 111
black consciousness, ecstasy and, 130–131
black mortality, commerce and, 128–129
black objectification/stereotypes, McKay and, 126–129
black writers, as modernists, 249n8
Bodhisattva sculptures, destruction of, 175–176
Boer War, Tagore poems in response to, 54
boundaries, balancing disruption of, 189
boundaries of art, autarkic theories of national community and, 221
British Nationality Act (1948), 252n50
Buddha, reconstruction of fractured, in Anil’s Ghost, 178–180
calypso, in The Emigrants, 142
Camera Lucida (Barthes), 255n9
caste system, Indian, 51–52
Chakravarty, Ajit Kumar, 55
Chicago Defender (newspaper), 118
chimeras: biotechnological connotation of, 29; defined, 9; diagnostic function of, 10; Joyce and, 78–79, 89, 90–91, 92–94; Smith and totality as, 185–186; utopia vs., 231
chimeras of form, 7; defined, 9; delimiting range of possible and, 1–2, 3–4; as figures of modernist internationalism, 8–9; Migritude and, 223–230; modernist grotesque and, 21–29; modernist internationalism and, 12; modernity and, 231; as riposte to nationhood, 221
China, raided Buddhist temple, 175–176
Churchill, Suzanne W., 249n8
cohesive power of weak ties, 20
collaboration: Migritude and, 225; Tagore and, 39, 62, 239n3
collage, 19; Ondaatje’s use of, 32, 165
Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The (Ondaatje), 32–33, 149, 154–163; archival materials used in, 155, 156, 157–158, 161–163; archival method in, 153; contextualization of, 161; cover of, 161–163; ending of, 180; mythistorical and, 174; 2008 edition, 154, 161–163, 255n12
collective memory, archives and, 180–181
collectivism, Lamming and narrative, 135–136
collectivity: archival form and, 177; based on shared taste, 69; metaphors for, 29; root canal metaphor and, 188; social arrangements of, 7
colonial, aligned with provincial, 245n20
colonial culture, internationalism and, 64–68
colonialism: Hungarian parallel and, 80–81; Joyce and, 76, 78–79; Joyce and anticolonialism, 93–94
Coming Through Slaughter (Ondaatje), 149
commerce, black mortality and, 128–129
“Communal Patriot, The” (Ali), 70–71
communal patriotism, 71–72
comparison: postcolonial theory of, 246n24; post-European perspective on, 52–53
compilation, anthology and method of, 46, 47
conscience, Joyce and uncreated racial, 247n38
Constab Ballads (McKay), 116
contact zones, in Nationalism, 45
cosmopolitical, shifting force field of, 6
Countess Cathleen, The (Yeats), 84
Country and the City, The (Williams), 26
Crescent Moon, The (Tagore), 42
critical memory, black modernism and, 142
cultural internationalism, 11
Davies, Carole Boyce, 111
decolonization, welfare state and, 261n31
“Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/Modernity/Modernism” (Friedman), 15
Deliverer, The (Gregory), 79
democracy, liberal geoculture and, 213–214
deprovincializing modernism, 14–21
despotism, Tagore and, 36
Detroit Journal, on Nationalism, 43–44
Disciplining Modernism (Caughie), 16
discrimination, intranational, 51–52
domesticity, in The Home and the World, 66–68
Dubliners (Joyce), 31, 83, 84, 88–94; alternating asymmetry in, 85; chimera in, 89; epiphanies in, 91–94; indictment of provinciality and colonial paralysis in, 88
Du Bois, W. E. B., 19; review of Banjo, 122; review of Home to Harlem, 116–117, 118
East, Tagore and persistence of, 49, 50–51
economic insulation, Swadeshi nationalism and, 61, 66–68
Economist (periodical), 108
“Embassy of Cambodia, The” (Smith), 20, 205, 218, 219; access theme in, 192–193; authorial identity and democratic aesthetics and, 194; badminton rules and, 196; balancing multiple scales in, 189–197; ending of, 195–196, 197; measurement in, 192, 195, 197; relationship between formal and social wholes and, 189–190; segmentation in, 189–190, 191–192, 195, 196; use of metalepsis in, 193–194
Emigrants, The (Lamming), 20, 32; anticolonialism in, 140; Azi’s letter, 143; calypso in, 142–143; citizenship and, 134, 135; dissolution of “I” in, 138; dramatic dialogue in, 139–140; mutilation of form in, 136–137; narrative temporality in, 145–147; overcoming provincialism in, 139; use of vernacular in, 139–141
emigration, Lamming and, 112
England Made Me (Greene), 199
English authority, withdrawal from in The Emigrants, 143–144
epiphanies, in Dubliners, 91–94
Essay on Genius (Gerard), 22
ethical relativism, myth and, 169–170
ethnic distinctions, aesthetic judgment and, 70
ethnic stereotypes, Tagore and, 66
European Neighbourhood Policy, 190–191
European reception of The Home and the World, 63–64
expatriation, modernism and, 121
Feeling Global (Robbins), 3
First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists, 144
force fields, cosmopolitical and shifting, 6
formalism, defense of, 6–7
form and formlessness, prose and, 116
Friedman, Susan Stanford, 15
Gardener, The (Tagore), 42
gentrification, “The North West London Blues” and, 198–200
Geomodernisms (Doyle and Winkiel), 16
Geopolitical Aesthetic, The (Jameson), 208
geopolitical unconscious, 205
Gheorghe, Nicolae, 32, 108
Gitanjali (Tagore), 39, 42, 55
global capitalism, integration and, 182–183
global inequality: international solidarity and, 183–184; national inequality and, 209–211
globalization: intellectual history of, 2; social effects of contemporary, 238n61; wealth inequality and, 183–184
global justice, 2–3; cosmopolitan theories of, 13; international relations and, 10; NW and, 210; reshaping reader consciousness and, 12
grotesque: Bakhtin on, 77; Harpham on, 30; Home to Harlem and, 117; Joyce and, 76–77, 93, 96; modernist, 21–29
Handbook of Global Modernisms (Wollaeger), 17
“Harlem Renaissance and the New Modernist Studies, The,” 249n8
Harlem Shadows (McKay), 116
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 30
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 264n10
historical actors, memory and experience of time and, 173–174
historical materialism, 170
historical novel, Ondaatje and, 149, 151, 152
Histories, The (Herodotus), 149, 150
history: archive and, 150; interface with myth, 151; Ondaatje’s theory of, 150–151; stagist and progressivist, 238n59
Holmes, Christopher, 259n6
Home and the World, The (Tagore), 36, 39; aesthetic preference and ethnic stereotype in, 65–66; as “babu” novel, 63–64; circulation of goods across borders and, 59–60; colonial culture and, 64–68; domesticity and, 66–68; double plot of, 69–70; footnotes in, 62–63; Pears soap symbolism in, 66–68; reception of in Europe, 63–64; recombinatory strategies in, 40; Swadeshi nationalism and, 60–62, 65–68; taste and, 64–66, 69–72; translating, 58–68
Huffman, Frontier Photographer (Huffman), 158
humanists, temporal scale and, 172–174
human rights activists, temporal scale and, 172–174
human rights interventionism, 3
human rights law/principles, 109–110; Anil’s Ghost and, 168–169; Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 109, 219
hysterical realism, White Teeth and, 215–216
“I Dream that I Dwelt” (Joyce), 93
individual: individualism and, 212, 214; plot and, 110
innovation, dependence and, 213
integration: defined, 182; global capitalism and, 182–183
international individualism, 109
internationalism, 9–14; anticolonial and liberal theories of, 13–14; archival legends and, 33; black, 111–112, 122, 125–126, 132, 249n9; chimera as symbol for, 9; colonial culture and, 64–68; of McKay, 24–25; political imagination of, 8–9; real-world politics and, 3, 4; tensions between national interests and cosmopolitan identifications and, 75; vagabond, 125; Wells-Tagore debate on effect of, 37–38
International Monetary Fund, 261n37
international relations, realist view of, 10–11
In the Castle of My Skin (Lamming), 135
intranational discrimination, 51–52
Iraqi National Library, looting and burning of, 171–172
Irish–French alliance, 86–87
Irish Homestead (newspaper), 83, 84
Irish Literary Revival, 75, 84
Irish Literary Theatre, 78
Irish literature: Hungarian parallel and, 80–83; Moses–Parnell typology and, 79
Irish solidarity, Joyce and, 74–75
isolationism, autarky and, 47
Ivory Coast, migration from, 190
Jamaican dialect, McKay and, 116
“James Joyce—The Internationalist” (Power), 243n1
Jameson, Fredric: on failure of socialist internationalism, 9; geopolitical unconscious and, 205; totality and, 186, 203, 208; on utopia, 231, 264n10
Joyce, James, 8, 20, 31–32, 185; “After the Race,” 83–89; alternating asymmetry and, 75–76; apposition and, 100–103; chimeras and, 78–79, 90–91, 92–94; criticism of Irish revivalism, 82–84; gigantism and, 96–97; grotesque and, 93, 96; Hungarian parallel and, 83–89, 95–96; Irish liberation and, 89–90; Irish solidarity and, 74–75; memorialization and, 187; moral history and, 90, 91–92; national parallelism and, 79–94; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 90, 94, 114, 121; psychology of colonial subject and, 78–79; pushing boundaries of literary form, 76; on role of artist, 77–78; self-deception and, 84, 89, 90; Smith and, 206; Stephen Hero, 83, 84, 87, 92, 95. See also Dubliners (Joyce); Ulysses (Joyce)
judgment, standards of, 4–5
“Justice and International Relations” (Beitz), 13
Kershner, R. Brandon, 244n1
Kirschenbaum, Matthew, 253n3
knowable communities, 5–6
knowledge/knowing: chimeras of form and limits of, 2; scale of, 26; Smith and partiality of, 188
Lamming, George, 8, 20, 32; aestheticized populism and, 147, 148; anticolonialism and, 140–141; classification of, 249–250n10; deracination and, 135, 138–139, 141–142, 148; grimoire aesthetics and, 137; narrative collectivism and, 135–136; on peasant writing, 136–137; plotless novels of, 111–113; as postcolonial writer, 112; Sartre and, 140–141; use of plotlessness, 134–135. See also Emigrants, The (Lamming)
“Language of the Outlaw, The” (Joyce), 245n12
League of Nations, 11; International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, 10, 239n1
liberation, national organicism and, 27–28
literary form: sociopolitical intervention and, 222; as stabilizing force, 5
literary network, circulation and translation and, 240n6
“A Little Cloud” (Joyce), 90, 94
“Lives of Infamous Men, The” (Foucault), 152
Marxism, totality and, 186
mature thought, in internationalism, 11
McKay, Claude, 8, 20, 32; black objectification/stereotypes and, 126–129; classification of, 249–250n10; deracination and, 114, 116, 122, 134; embellishment, disorientation, surveillance and, 24–25; exploration of black community in novels, 117; Harlem Renaissance and, 20, 32, 112, 249n10; Home to Harlem, 114–118; musical ecstasy and, 127–129, 130–132; plotless novels of, 111–113; socialism and, 117, 124–125; vagabondage and, 120–124, 125, 133, 147–148. See also Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (McKay)
measurement, in “The Embassy of Cambodia,” 192, 195, 197
memorialization, Smith and, 187
memory: in Anil’s Ghost, 164, 167, 168; archives and collective, 180; black modernism and critical, 142; collective, 180–181; experience of time and, 173–174; multidirectional, 181; Ondaatje and, 149, 151
method, in anthology, 46, 47
migratory subjectivity, 111
Migritude (Patel), 34; as re-mediated work of art, 223–230
Mirror and the Lamb, The (Abrams), 22
mise en abyme structure, in Nationalism, 52
modernism, 16–17; chimeric model of literary form and, 7; cross-cultural encounter and, 235n34; deprovincializing, 14–21; modernity and, 6; non-European literatures and, 17; transnational, 235n27; tropes, 113
Modernism: An Anthology (Rainey), 14
Modernism/Modernity (journal), 249n8
Modernist grotesque, 21–29
modernist internationalism: chimeras of form and, 12; critical cosmopolitanism vs., 236–237n37; forced displacement and, 220–221; Joyce and, 31; knowable and, 6; mediated nature of agency and, 222–223; neoclassicist vision of, 14–15; reformulation of, 2–3; unknowability of communities and, 222
modernity, 16–17; central contradiction of, 5; globalizing processes of, 19; modernism and, 6
modernization of literature, decline of knowable and, 5–6
Mongol invasion of Iraq, 172
moral history, Joyce and, 90, 91–92
Moses–Parnell comparison, 79
“Mourn—and then Onward!” (Yeats), 79
multidirectional memory, 181
mutilation of form in The Emigrants, 137–139
Narrative Discourse (Genette), 193
national autarky, state sovereignty and, 8
national autonomy, cultural autarky and, 241n18
national community, autarkic theories of, 221
nationalism, 10; anthology and, 42, 43; anticolonial, 48; autarkic, 31, 47–48, 72–73; Celtic, 84; Irish, 84, 244n1, 244n2, 245n15; romantic theories of, 27–28; selection and, 49–51; Swadeshi, 41, 48, 60–62, 65–68, 70–72; temperance, 248n45; transnational processes of selection and, 49–50; via regionalism, 139–140; Westernization and, 48–49; West Indian, 141–142, 145, 146
Nationalism (Tagore), 39; as anthology, 42–43, 46; assimilation vs. appropriation and, 50–51; autotranslation of, 23; comparison in, 52–53; compiling, 42–58; connection between nationalism and Westernization in, 48–49; main text, 44–45, 50; “Nationalism in India,” 46, 51–52; “Nationalism in Japan,” 45–46, 49, 50–51; “Nationalism in the West,” 45; opening preface, 45–46, 47; oral performance and, 241n24; paratexts, 44–45, 47, 53; on power dynamics of cultural contact, 43–44; prefaces, 50, 52–53; recombinatory strategies in, 40; remainders of, 53; second preface, 45, 46–47, 53; “The Sunset of the Century,” 42, 46, 53–58; title page, 44
national organicism, 27–29
nationhood, authorship and democratic, 194–195
nation-state: borders of, 60, 141; Cheah on, 27–29; forced displacement and, 220–221; universalistic within and particularistic without, 60
nativism, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and, 154
Negroes in America (McKay), 124
“Negro Writer and His World, The” (Lamming), 144
“Negro Writer to His Critics, A” (McKay), 118
neoclassicist vision of modernist internationalism, 14–15
Netherland (O’Neill), 185
New International Economic Order (NIEO), 13
new modernist studies, 15
New Statesman (journal), 44
New Yorker (magazine), 189
New York Herald-Tribune (newspaper), 118
“North West London Blues, The” (Smith), 197–200, 218
Nouvelles Littéraires (periodical), 119
novel: corporation, 26; multiculturalism and, 259n13; plotless, 111–113; regional, 26–27; rentier, 26; Smith on future of Anglophone, 185; university, 26
Nussbaum, Martha, 9, 41, 70
NW (Smith), 187, 197–198; disrupted panorama in, 207–208; distributions of power, 209; Englishness and, 203–205; individualism and individual in, 212, 214; interactive dimension of, 206–207, 262n40; intersection of national and global inequality, 209–210; localism and, 200–201; moral luck and, 211–213; partiality of vision in, 203, 205; portrayal of privilege in, 202–203; review of, 201; self-determination and, 205–206; use of stream of consciousness in, 206–207, 208; welfare state and, 199
O’Brien, William Smith, 80
“Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing” (Hume), 22–23
Ondaatje, Michael, 20, 32–33, 107; archival method of, 151–153, 176–177, 180; historical novel and, 149, 151, 152; history as unfinishable project and, 150–151; interface of myth and history and, 151; mythistorical and, 174–175; photo of as young boy, 159, 160; reframing national pasts, 153–154; reinscription and, 180–181; Tagore and, 152–153. See also Anil’s Ghost (Ondaatje); Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The (Ondaatje)
oral performance, world literature and, 53, 241n24
organicism: ideologies of, 27; national, 27–29
Oxford English Dictionary, 47, 182
Parnell, Charles Stewart, 79
participant analyst, reader as, 63
peasant writing, Lamming on, 136–137
People’s History of London, A (Rees), 198
plot: bildungsroman and, 110; individuality and, 110; power of, 119–120
poetic invention, political change and, 227–231
political change, poetic invention and, 227–231
political collectivism, Joyce and, 31
political life, defined, 239n62
Political Theory and International Relations (Beitz), 13
populism: aetheticized, 147, 148; deracination and, 135
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 90, 94, 114, 121
power, distributions of, 209
Practice of Diaspora, The (Edwards), 111
primitivism, nostalgic, 251n27
proliferation, frontier mythology and, 161, 163
prose, form and formlessness and, 116
provincial, colonial aligned with, 245n20
provincialism, national belonging and, 243n1
Provincializing Europe (Chakrabarty), 17
public performance, printed work of, 223–230
Quidditas, epiphanies and, 92, 93
race: “After the Race” and, 87–89; socialism and, 124; Ulysses and, 95, 96
racial stereotypes: Hungarian–Irish parallel and, 81–82; McKay and, 126–129
reader consciousness, reshaping borders of, 12
realism: combined with utopianism, 12; hysterical, 215–216; lyrical, 216
“Red Hanrahan” (Yeats), 84
reflections, Tagore’s translations as, 55–56, 59
Remainder (McCarthy), 185
re-mediated work of art (Migritude), 223–230
Resurrection of Hungary, The: A Parallel for Ireland (Griffith), 80–81, 82–83, 84, 95–96
rights: of others, 133–134; of transnational people, 109–110. See also under human rights
Robbins, Bruce: attachment at a distance and, 20; deep time and, 171, 172–174, 257n33; on The English Patient, 254n6; on global inequality and welfare state, 210–211; on The Home and the World, 70; on internationalism, 3; literary history of the welfare state and, 201
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 213
Russell, George William, 94
Russian avant-garde ideology of autonomy, 35–36
Saga of Billy the Kid, The (Burns), 156
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 1–2
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 27
Schwartz, Mattathias, 190
“Scylla and Charybdis” (Joyce), 94
selection, nationalism and, 49–51
self-deception, Joyce and, 84, 89, 90
self-definition, collective, 181
self-determination, Smith and, 205–206
self-recognition, Hungarian parallel and, 81
self-reference, in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, 159, 160
Shaw, George Bernard, on Ulysses, 103–104
short story: as literary form, 190; Smith and, 191–192
“Significance of History, The” (Turner), 256n16
“Significance of the Frontier in American History, The” (Turner), 155
“Sisters, The” (Joyce), 83, 84
Smith, Zadie, 2, 8, 20, 107; causality and, 208–209, 214–215, 217–218; Englishness and, 199, 200; FutureMouse and, 34–35; individualism and individual and, 205, 212, 214; memorialization and, 187; multiculturalism and, 188, 192–193, 199; neoliberal critique and, 199, 201–202; northwest London and, 187–188; “The North West London Blues,” 197–200; root canal metaphor and, 33, 184–185, 186–187, 188, 214–215; scale and, 189–197, 200–201, 207–208, 209; stream of consciousness and, 206–207, 208; totality and, 185–186, 208; use of metalepsis, 193–194, 195–196; welfare state and, 198–199, 261n32. See also “Embassy of Cambodia, The” (Smith); NW (Smith); White Teeth (Smith)
social arrangements of collectivities, 7
socialism: McKay and, 117; utopian vs. scientific, 124–125
socialists, internationalism and, 9–10
social upheaval, limits of aesthetic representation and, 1–2
Songs of Jamaica (McKay), 116
Souls of Black Folk, The (Du Bois), 19
spiritual truancy, McKay and, 116–117
Spring in New Hampshire (McKay), 116
Stalinism, autonomy and, 35–36
state sovereignty, national autarky and, 8
state-sponsored transnationalism, 123
subjectivation: Migritude and, 224–225; Negritude poets and, 224
symbolic landscape, symbolism of, 151
syntactic decomposition, 206
Tagore, Rabindranath, 2, 8, 20, 221; antinationalism of, 41; autarkic nationalism and, 31, 47–48, 72–73; authorial and collective identity of, 44–45; autotranslation and, 23, 30–31, 39, 40–41, 73; Bengali writings of, 58–59; collaborative translation and, 39, 62, 239n3; combining poems, 54–55; compiling Nationalism, 42–58; damaged reputation of, 39–40; debate with Wells, 10, 37–38; defining national collectivity, 57; on effect of internationalism, 37–38; on musical notation systems, 39; Ondaatje’s archival method and, 152–153; reconsideration of, 41; Rolland and Einstein and, 239n1; Swadeshi nationalism and, 41, 48, 60–62, 65–68, 70–72; taste and, 69–72; translating The Home and the World, 58–68; translation of Bengali poems, 73; translations as reflections and, 55–56, 59; treatment of Bengali works as repositories of materials, 40–41; utopian internationalism and, 31; Visva-Bharati and, 61, 72–73. See also Home and the World, The (Tagore); Nationalism (Tagore)
taste: collectivity based on shared, 69–70; ethnic stereotype and, 63–64; production of identity and, 64–66; Tagore and, 69–72
temperance nationalism, 248n45
territoriality, citizenship and, 110–111
territorial nationality, 70–71
territorial nativism, 60, 70, 72
Texas Star (periodical), 158
“This Is How It Feels to Me” (Smith), 196, 205
Three Guineas (Woolf), 19
Through Other Continents (Dimock), 170–172
time capsule metaphor, in Anil’s Ghost, 177–178
Times Literary Supplement (periodical), 44
translation: archival method and, 152; collaborative, 59, 73; as reflections, 55–56, 59; of “The Sunset of the Century,” 47, 53–58; Tagore and negotiation of, 37–39, 58; Wells on, 37–38
translation theory, Tagore and, 54–56
transnational blackness, 111
transnational historical networks, Smith and, 33
transnationalism, state-sponsored, 123
transnational male friendship, Banjo and, 132–133
transnational migration, 3
transnational modernism, 235n27
transnational processes of selection, nationalism and, 49–50
transnational upward mobility, 211
Twenty Years’ Crisis, The (Carr), 10–11
“Two Paths for the Novel” (Smith), 185, 216
Ulysses (Joyce), 32, 94–107, 119; alternating asymmetry in, 76, 96, 97–98; anti-Irish bias in criticism of, 248n45; “Cyclops,” 95–105, 106; “Eumaeus,” 105; gigantism in, 96–97; Gilbert schema, 96; grotesque in, 76–77; “Ithaca,” 105–106; Linati schema, 96, 106
unfinished vs. unfinishable, 21
United Irishman (newspaper), 80, 89
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 13
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 219–220, 263n1
United States, response to migrants, 220–221
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 109, 219
universal humanism, Tagore and, 41
universalism, nation and, 60
utopian internationalism, Tagore and, 31
utopianism: combined with realism, 12; internationalism and, 11
utopian universalism, Wells and, 37–38, 39
vagabond internationalism, 125
vernacular, Lamming’s use of, 139–141
Visva-Bharati (World-India), Tagore and, 61, 72–73
Wallace, David Foster, 216
wealth inequality, globalization and, 183–184
Westernization, nationalism and, 48–49
West Indies citizenship, Lamming and, 134
West Indies Federation, 137, 147
“What Was Modernism?” (Levin), 14
White Teeth (Smith), 33, 34; causality and, 214–215, 217–218; cricket test in, 217; hysterical realism and, 215–216; root canal metaphor, 184–185, 186–187, 214–215; scalar abnormalities of, 216–217
wholes, relationship between formal and social, 189–190
Williams, William Carlos, 15
Wilsonian internationalism, 11, 25
world state, internationalism and, 10
Young Islander Rebellion (1848), 80