INDEX
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Abrams, M. H., 22
access, “The Embassy of Cambodia” and, 192–193
Adams, Robert M., 246n25
Adorno, Theodor, 133, 231, 264n10
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
African diaspora, 111, 119, 249n9
“After the Race” (Joyce), 83–90, 94
Agathocleous, Tanya, 262n42
agency, mediated nature of, 222–223
Ali, Maulana Mohamed, 70–71
alternating asymmetry, Joyce and, 31, 75–76, 96, 97–98
American invasion of Iraq, 171–172
Amis, Kingsley, 200
Amnesty International, 176
Anandamath (Chatterjee), 61
Anderson, Benedict, 156
Angelides, Phil, 182–183
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
Appadurai, Arjun, 161
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 3–4
apposition, 100–103
appropriation, nationalism and, 50–51
Apter, Emily, 54
Arab Spring, 80
“Araby” (Joyce), 92, 94
Aravamudan, Srinivas, 237n40
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
archival method, Ondaatje’s, 151–153, 176–177, 180. See also Anil’s Ghost (Ondaatje); Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The (Ondaatje)
archives: collective memory and, 180; digital, 253n3; legends and, 152; looting and burning of Iraqi National Library, 171–172; theory of, 150, 152, 254–255n9
Arendt, Hannah, 60, 69, 70
Aristotle, 187
Armstrong, Nancy, 110
assimilation, selectivity of, 50–51
Athenaeum (journal), 42
Attridge, Derek, 244n2
autarchy, 47
autarky: cultural, 23, 48, 241n18; Tagore and, 31, 47–48, 72–73
“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
avowed intentions, 78, 244n10
Bailkin, Jordanna, 261n31
Baker, Houston, Jr., 141–142
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 77
Baldwin, Kate A., 249n9
Balibar, Étienne, 27, 32, 109, 111, 147–148
Ball, John, 197–198, 200
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
banks, too big to fail, 182–183
Barthes, Roland, 255n9
Bataille, George, 129–130, 131, 251n37
Baudelaire, Charles, 119
Beach, Sylvia, 103–104
Beasley, Rebecca, 40
Beckett, Samuel, 185
Beitz, Charles, 13
Ben-Atar, Doron, 213
Bender, Thomas, 256n16
Bengali origins of “The Sunset of the Century,” 53–54
Bengali poems, translation of, 73
Benhabib, Seyla, 32, 133
Benjamin, Walter, 31, 90, 144, 170
Berlant, Lauren, 76–77, 141
Berlin, Isaiah, 41
Berman, Jessica, 235n27
Bibliothèque Nationale, 152
bildungsroman, 110, 113, 114, 121
Billy the Kid, 32–33, 149, 180. See also Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The (Ondaatje)
Billy the Kid and the Princess (pulp novel), 158
Black Atlantic, 111, 249n9
black collectivity, limitation of nation-centered paradigms for, 111
black consciousness, ecstasy and, 130–131
black internationalism, 111–112, 122, 125–126, 132, 249n9
black mortality, commerce and, 128–129
black objectification/stereotypes, McKay and, 126–129
black writers, as modernists, 249n8
Bloch, Ernst, 91, 133, 145–146, 246n32, 264n10
Bodhisattva sculptures, destruction of, 175–176
Boer War, Tagore poems in response to, 54
Bolden, Buddy, 149
Bonney, William. See Billy the Kid
borders: migrants and, 220, 221; nation-state, 60, 141
boundaries, balancing disruption of, 189
boundaries of art, autarkic theories of national community and, 221
Braddock, Jeremy, 42
British Nationality Act (1948), 252n50
Brooks, Peter, 119–120
Brown, Wendy, 221
Bryant, John, 255n12
Buck-Morss, Susan, 18
Buddha, reconstruction of fractured, in Anil’s Ghost, 178–180
Buddhist temple, raided, 175–176
Burns, Walter Noble, 156
Burton, Antoinette, 254n9, 258n38
Butler, Judith, 2
calypso, in The Emigrants, 142
Camera Lucida (Barthes), 255n9
Cameron, David, 200
capitalism: integration and global, 182–183; vagabondage and, 122–123
Carpenter, Edward, 124
Carr, E. H., 10–11, 12, 25
Cassavetes, John, 159, 256n21
caste system, Indian, 51–52
Caughie, Pamela, 16
causality, Smith and, 185, 186, 188, 208–209, 214–215, 217–218
Celtic nationalism, 84
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 17, 41, 257n29, 258n43
Chakravarty, Ajit Kumar, 55
Chalfen, Marcus, 34–35
chapters: history of, 187; Smith and, 187, 189–190
Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra, 61, 242n35
Chatterjee, Partha, 48
Cheah, Pheng, 6, 27–29
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
Chisum, John, 158
Chisum, Sally, 158
Chow, Rey, 52
Churchill, Suzanne W., 249n8
citizenship: The Emigrants and, 134, 135; territoriality and, 110–111; transnational, 109–110
civitas vaga, 109, 111, 146–148
“Clay” (Joyce), 93, 94
Claybaugh, Amanda, 201
Clifford, James, 63
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
Collini, Stefan, 25
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 forms, 7
communal organicism, 27
“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
Comrade (newspaper), 70
Conrad, Joseph, 40
conscience, Joyce and uncreated racial, 247n38
Constab Ballads (McKay), 116
contact zones, in Nationalism, 45
contextualization, 161
Cook, Kim, 225
Cooppan, Vilashini, 238n59
corporation novel, 26
cosmopolitanism, 3–4; critical, 236–237n37; internationalism and, 9–10
cosmopolitical, shifting force field of, 6
Countess Cathleen, The (Yeats), 84
Country and the City, The (Williams), 26
Crescent Moon, The (Tagore), 42
cricket test, 217
critical cosmopolitanism, 236–237n37
critical memory, black modernism and, 142
cruel optimism, 76–77
cultural autarky, 23, 48, 241n18
cultural internationalism, 11
Cvetkovich, Ann, 239n62
“Cyclops” (Joyce), 31–32, 95–105, 106
Dames, Nicholas, 187, 195
Damrosch, David, 240n6
Daniel, E. Valentine, 256n26
Darío, Rubén, 236n34
Davies, Carole Boyce, 111
Davis, Thomas, 80
Deane, Seamus, 91, 246n23
décalage, 111
decolonization, welfare state and, 261n31
deep time, 170–174, 257n33
“Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/Modernity/Modernism” (Friedman), 15
Deleuze, Gilles, 239n64
DeLillo, Don, 216
Deliverer, The (Gregory), 79
democracy, liberal geoculture and, 213–214
Democracy Village, 198, 260n28
demos: ethnos and, 259–260n14; Smith and, 188, 191, 196
deprovincializing modernism, 14–21
deracination: Lamming and, 135, 138–139, 141–142, 148; McKay and, 114, 116, 122, 134; Roma and, 109
Derrida, Jacques, 28, 150, 167
despotism, Tagore and, 36
Detroit Journal, on Nationalism, 43–44
digital archives, 253n3
Dimock, Wai Chee, 170–172, 173, 174
Disciplining Modernism (Caughie), 16
discrimination, intranational, 51–52
Doheny, Michael, 80
domesticity, in The Home and the World, 66–68
Doyle, Laura, 16
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
Duffy, Enda, 100, 246n27, 247n41, 248n45
East, Tagore and persistence of, 49, 50–51
Easter Rising (1916), 80, 187, 247n41, 259n10
Eastman, Max, 124
economic inequality, 3. See also inequality
economic insulation, Swadeshi nationalism and, 61, 66–68
Economist (periodical), 108
ecstasy: Lamming and, 142–143; McKay and, 130–132
Edwards, Brent, 111, 125–126, 255n9
effective motives, 78, 244n10
Eglinton, John, 94
Einstein, Albert, 239n1
Eliot, T. S., 14, 40
Ellmann, Richard, 84, 245n20
“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
emotions: expectant, 146; filled, 145–146
Engels, Friedrich, 124
England Made Me (Greene), 199
English authority, withdrawal from in The Emigrants, 143–144
Englishness: Britishness and, 252n50; The Emigrants and, 140–141; NW and, 203–205; Smith and, 199, 200, 203–205
English Patient, The (Ondaatje), 149, 150, 254n6
epiphanies, in Dubliners, 91–94
Epiphanies (Joyce), 91
Ertürk, Nergis, 235n30
Essay on Genius (Gerard), 22
Esty, Jed, 5, 121
ethical relativism, myth and, 169–170
ethnic distinctions, aesthetic judgment and, 70
ethnic stereotypes, Tagore and, 66
ethnos, demos and, 259–260n14
“Eumaeus” (Joyce), 105
Europe: migration to, 219–220; modernism and, 14–20
European Neighbourhood Policy, 190–191
European reception of The Home and the World, 63–64
European Union, 109; migration policies, 190–191, 260n18; response to migrants, 220–221
“Eveline” (Joyce), 83, 84, 90, 92–93, 94
expatriation, modernism and, 121
expectant emotions, 146
Farge, Arlette, 255n9
Faulkner, William, 15
Feeling Global (Robbins), 3
fiction, provincial, 26
filled emotions, 145–146
First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists, 144
fluid text, 255n12
forced migration: Migritude and, 223–230; nation-states and, 220–221
force fields, cosmopolitical and shifting, 6
foreign aid, 213, 263n51
formalism, defense of, 6–7
form and formlessness, prose and, 116
form fields, 6–7
Forster, E. M., 63–64
“Fortress Europe,” 190–191, 260n18
Foucault, Michel, 150, 152, 255n9
foundational myths, 174
Fraser, Nancy, 189
Fréine, Seán de, 75
Friedman, Susan Stanford, 15
frontier, Ondaatje’s reinvention of myth of American, 154–155, 156–158, 163
Fuss, Diana, 81
FutureMouse, 34–35
futurism, tropes of, 113
Gaelic League, 75, 79, 82, 244n4
Gandhi, Leela, 124
Gandhi, Mohandas, 63
García, Romualdo, 256n24
Gardener, The (Tagore), 42
Garrett, Pat, 155, 156, 163
Gellner, Ernest, 154–155
Genette, Gerard, 193
gentrification, “The North West London Blues” and, 198–200
geoculture, liberal, 213–214
Geomodernisms (Doyle and Winkiel), 16
Geopolitical Aesthetic, The (Jameson), 208
geopolitical unconscious, 205
Gerard, Alexander, 22
German, Lindsey, 198
Ghare Baire, 59, 62, 242n30. See also Home and the World, The (Tagore)
Gheorghe, Nicolae, 32, 108
Gibbons, Luke, 247n37
Gibson, Andrew, 95, 243–244n1, 245n15
gigantism, 96–97
Gikandi, Simon, 145, 235–236n34
Gilbert schema, 96
Gilroy, Paul, 111, 200, 249n9
Girard, René, 236n34
Gitanjali (Tagore), 39, 42, 55
global capitalism, integration and, 182–183
global city, 187, 259n11
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
global migrant crisis, 33–34, 219–220
GoGwilt, Christopher, 235n27
Goldstone, Andrew, 87
Goswami, Manu, 60, 236n35
Granovetter, Mark, 20
Greene, Graham, 199, 200
Gregory, Lady, 79
Griffith, Arthur, 80–83, 84, 95–96, 245n15
grimoire: Banjo and, 119, 123, 129, 132–133; Lamming and, 136–137
Groden, Michael, 248n45
grotesque: Bakhtin on, 77; Harpham on, 30; Home to Harlem and, 117; Joyce and, 76–77, 93, 96; modernist, 21–29
Groys, Boris, 35
Guattari, Félix, 239n64
Guha, Ranajit, 41
guilt, luck and, 211–212
Guterres, António, 219–220
gypsies, 108–109
Habermas, Jürgen, 21
Habiby, Emile, 237n44
“Hades” (Joyce), 94
Hall, Stuart, 188
Handbook of Global Modernisms (Wollaeger), 17
Hardy, Thomas, 261n33
Harlem Renaissance, McKay and, 20, 32, 112, 249n10
“Harlem Renaissance and the New Modernist Studies, The,” 249n8
Harlem Shadows (McKay), 116
Harootunian, H. D., 53
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 30
Harris, Wilson, 138–139
Hart, Matthew, 235n27
Hartley, L. P., 181
Hayot, Eric, 235–236n34
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 264n10
Hegglund, Jon, 233n4
Herder, Johann, 186
Hermann, Christoph, 201–202
Herodotus, 149, 174
Hindu nationalism, 41, 48, 60–62, 65–68, 70–72
Hindu Tamils, 164, 179, 256n26
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
historiographic metafiction, 151, 254n7
history: archive and, 150; interface with myth, 151; Ondaatje’s theory of, 150–151; stagist and progressivist, 238n59
Hobbes, Thomas, 10
holism, 186, 187
Hollywood, Amy, 131
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
Home to Harlem (McKay), 114–118, 133
hope, Bloch and, 246n32
Hough, Graham, 14, 15
Howes, Marjorie, 244n2
Huffman, Frontier Photographer (Huffman), 158
Huffman, L. A., 158
human, definition of, 167, 257n29
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
Hume, David, 22–23
Hungarian parallel, 80–83, 245n15; “After the Race” and, 85–89; Joyce and, 83–89, 95–96; race and, 81–82
Hutcheon, Linda, 254n7
Huxley, Julian, 257n29
Hyndman, Henry, 124–125
hypotaxis, 207
hysterical realism, White Teeth and, 215–216
Ibsen, Henrik, 84
“I Dream that I Dwelt” (Joyce), 93
Indian nationalism, 41, 48, 60–62, 65–68, 70–72
individual: individualism and, 212, 214; plot and, 110
individualism: individual and, 212, 214; international, 109; Smith and, 205, 212, 214
inequality: economic, 3; global, 183–184, 209–211
innovation, dependence and, 213
integration: defined, 182; global capitalism and, 182–183
intellectual history, 25
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
international solidarity, 3, 19; global inequality and, 183–184; Ireland and, 75; Joyce and, 84, 88–89, 99–105; metalepsis and, 193–194
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–Jewish parallel, 79–80, 102–103, 104–106
Irish Literary Revival, 75, 84
Irish Literary Theatre, 78
Irish literature: Hungarian parallel and, 80–83; Moses–Parnell typology and, 79
Irish nationalism, 84; continental politics and, 74, 80, 244n1, 245n15; Joyce and, 244n2
Irish revivalism, 31, 244n4; cultural insularity of, 75; Joyce’s criticism of, 82–84, 99–100
Irish seoinini, 82
Irish solidarity, Joyce and, 74–75
isolationism, autarky and, 47
“Ithaca” (Joyce), 105–106
Ivory Coast, migration from, 190
Jamaican dialect, McKay and, 116
James, David, 237n39
“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
jatiprem, 54, 242n25
Jay, Martin, 186
jazz: in Banjo, 127–129, 130–132; Bataille on, 129–130, 131
Jewish–Irish parallel, 79–80, 102–103, 104–106
Jones, Dewey, 118
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: global, 10, 12, 13, 210; scales and, 189
“Justice and International Relations” (Beitz), 13
Kabdebó, Thomas, 80
Kadir, Djelal, 171, 174
Kafka, Franz, 185
Kant, Immanuel, 69, 70
Kaya Press, 225
Kazanjian, David, 100–101
Kenner, Hugh, 15
Kershner, R. Brandon, 244n1
Khanna, Ranjana, 151
Kiberd, Declan, 75, 82
Kinser, Samuel, 44
Kirschenbaum, Matthew, 253n3
Knepper, Wendy, 262n40
knowable communities, 5–6
knowledge/knowing: chimeras of form and limits of, 2; scale of, 26; Smith and partiality of, 188
künstlerroman, 114
Kurdi, Alan, 264n7
Kureishi, Hanif, 199
Kurnick, David, 91
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)
Lampedusa, 190
“Language of the Outlaw, The” (Joyce), 245n12
Larkin, Philip, 200
Latour, Bruno, 29
Lawrence, Karen, 96
League of Nations, 11; International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, 10, 239n1
LeClair, Tom, 165
legend, Foucault on, 152. See also Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The (Ondaatje)
Lenin, Vladimir, 124
Levin, Harry, 14, 15
Levine, Caroline, 6–7, 241n24
Levinson, André, 118–119, 120–121, 129, 147
Levy, Andrea, 199
Lewis, Pericles, 244n4, 247n38
liberal geoculture, 213–214
liberation, national organicism and, 27–28
Linati schema, 96, 106
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
Lloyd, David, 92, 248n45
localism, Smith and, 200–201
Locher, T. J. G., 208
Locke, John, 187
Lolita (Nabokov), 214
London, Smith and northwest, 187–188; “The North West London Blues,” 197–200, 218. See also “Embassy of Cambodia, The” (Smith); NW (Smith); White Teeth (Smith)
London Living Wage, 198
Love, Heather, 113
luck, guilt and, 211–212
Lukács, Georg, 63, 64, 151, 165
lyrical realism, 216
Mackey, Nathaniel, 138–139
Macmillan (publisher), 62, 239n3
Majumdar, Saikat, 91
Mali, Joseph, 174
Mandel, Ann, 154
Mani, B. Venkat, 259–260n14
Mann, Thomas, 14
Mao, Douglas, 15
mapping a country, 1–2, 4–5, 233n4
Marx, John, 238n59
Marxism, totality and, 186
mass displacement, 219–220
mature thought, in internationalism, 11
Matz, Jesse, 262n41
Maxwell, William J., 123
McCarthy, Tom, 185, 186
McClintock, Anne, 67
McGurl, Mark, 257n33
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)
McKible, Adam, 249n8
measurement, in “The Embassy of Cambodia,” 192, 195, 197
Mecsnóber, Tekla, 244n1
Mejías-López, Alejandro, 235–236n34
Melas, Natalie, 246n24
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
Merriam-Webster, 182
metalepsis, 193–194, 195–196
method, in anthology, 46, 47
Middle Passage, 138–139
migrant body, 228–229, 264n7
migration: to Europe, 219–220; European Union policies on, 190–191, 260n18. See also forced migration
migratory subjectivity, 111
Migritude (Patel), 34; as re-mediated work of art, 223–230
Milanovic, Branko, 183, 184
mimesis, 158
mimetic desire, 236n34
minor, 239n64
Mirror and the Lamb, The (Abrams), 22
mise en abyme structure, in Nationalism, 52
Mitchel, John, 80
Mitchell, Timothy, 262n37
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
modernismo, 236n34
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
Monegato, Emanuele, 225
Mongol invasion of Iraq, 172
montage, 165
moral history, Joyce and, 90, 91–92
moral luck, 211–213
Morrison, Toni, 210
Moses–Parnell comparison, 79
Moten, Fred, 100
“Mourn—and then Onward!” (Yeats), 79
Moyn, Samuel, 13
multiculturalism: the novel and, 259n13; Smith and, 188, 192–193, 199
multidirectional memory, 181
music: in Banjo, 125–129, 130–132; in The Emigrants, 142–143; Wells and Tagore on, 39
Muslims, Indian nationalism and, 64–66, 70–72
mutilation of form in The Emigrants, 137–139
mythistorical, 174–175
mythography, 156
myths: Anil’s Ghost and, 169–170; foundational, 174; interface with history, 151; legend and, 152. See also Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The (Ondaatje)
Nabokov, Vladimir, 214
Nagel, Thomas, 2, 9, 10–11, 13
Naibedya (Tagore), 53–54
Nail, Thomas, 220
Nandy, Ashis, 41
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
national parallelism, 75; “After the Race” and, 84–89; Irish–Jewish parallel, 79–80, 102–103, 104–106; Ulysses and, 98–107. See also Hungarian parallel; Joyce, James
nationhood, authorship and democratic, 194–195
Nation (periodical), 42
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
Negritude poets, 224
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
neoliberalism, 261n36; Smith’s critique of, 199, 201–202
Netherland (O’Neill), 185
New Criticism, 16
New International Economic Order (NIEO), 13
new modernist studies, 15
New Statesman (journal), 44
New Yorker (magazine), 189
New York Herald-Tribune (newspaper), 118
Ngai, Sianne, 10, 128, 213
Nickels, Joel, 251n31
Nolan, Emer, 78
Noland, Carrie, 224
nomadic collectivism, 112, 146–147. See also Lamming, George; McKay, Claude
nomadism, Roma and, 108–109
Norris, Margot, 105
North, Michael, 116
“North West London Blues, The” (Smith), 197–200, 218
nostalgia: in Anil’s Ghost, 179, 181; Ondaatje and, 150–151; Smith and, 199
nostalgic primitivism, 251n27
Nouvelles Littéraires (periodical), 119
Novalis, 27
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
obstructed agency, 213
Occupy movement, 183, 198
oceanic ontology of time, 173–174
“Of Simplicity and Refinement in Writing” (Hume), 22–23
Olson, Charles, 163
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)
O’Neill, Joseph, 185
optimism, cruel, 76–77
oral performance, world literature and, 53, 241n24
organicism: ideologies of, 27; national, 27–29
overcoherence, 262n37
Oxford English Dictionary, 47, 182
Paine, Thomas, 124
panorama: ideological significance of, 262n42; in NW, 207–208
parallax, 97
parataxis, 206, 207
paratexts, Nationalism’s, 44–45, 47, 53
Parnell, Charles Stewart, 79
partiality of vision, in NW, 203, 205, 210
participant analyst, reader as, 63
Patel, Shailja, 34, 223–230
Peace, David, 261n33
Pears soap, 66–68, 243n42
Peasants’ Revolt (1381), 197–198
peasant writing, Lamming on, 136–137
People’s History of London, A (Rees), 198
performance theory, 226
perspectivism, 19
pessoptimism, 21, 237n44
Phillips, Caryl, 185, 199
Piper, Andrew, 255n12
Pippin, Robert, 244–245n10
plot: bildungsroman and, 110; individuality and, 110; power of, 119–120
plotlessness, 25, 32. See also Lamming, George; McKay, Claude
plotless novels, 111–113. See also Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (McKay); Emigrants, The (Lamming)
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
Porter, David, 58
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 90, 94, 114, 121
postcolonial critique, 199–200
Pound, Ezra, 14, 39, 40, 59, 236n34
Power, Arthur, 243n1
power, distributions of, 209
Practice of Diaspora, The (Edwards), 111
Pratt, Mary Louise, 45
prefaces, in Nationalism, 45–47, 50, 52–53
primitivism, nostalgic, 251n27
Procter, James, 188
proliferation, frontier mythology and, 161, 163
propaedeutics, 231
prose, form and formlessness and, 116
Proust, Marcel, 14
provincial, colonial aligned with, 245n20
provincial fiction, 26
provincialism, national belonging and, 243n1
Provincializing Europe (Chakrabarty), 17
pseudotranslation, 54
public feelings, 239n62
public performance, printed work of, 223–230
puns, theory of, 138
Quidditas, epiphanies and, 92, 93
Rabelais, François, 77
race: “After the Race” and, 87–89; socialism and, 124; Ulysses and, 95, 96
racial consciousness, McKay and, 117–119, 125
racial stereotypes: Hungarian–Irish parallel and, 81–82; McKay and, 126–129
Radice, William, 242n36
Rainey, Lawrence, 14
Ramazani, Jahan, 15
Ratti, Manav, 256n26
Rawls, John, 13
Ray, Sri Suhendu, 242n36
reader consciousness, reshaping borders of, 12
realism: combined with utopianism, 12; hysterical, 215–216; lyrical, 216
recursion, 206
Reddy, Vanita, 225
“Red Hanrahan” (Yeats), 84
Rees, John, 198
reflections, Tagore’s translations as, 55–56, 59
regional novel, 26–27
Reid, Vic, 136
reinscription, 180–181
Remainder (McCarthy), 185
re-mediated work of art (Migritude), 223–230
rentier novel, 26
Resurrection of Hungary, The: A Parallel for Ireland (Griffith), 80–81, 82–83, 84, 95–96
revision, 19
Richards, Grant, 89, 92
rights: of others, 133–134; of transnational people, 109–110. See also under human rights
Roach, Joseph, 226
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
Rogers, Gayle, 244n1
Rolland, Romain, 239n1
Roma, 108–109
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 213
root canal metaphor, Smith and, 33, 184–185, 186–187, 188, 214–215
Rothberg, Michael, 180–181
Rushdie, Salman, 1–2, 4–5, 8, 184, 199, 216
Russell, George William, 94
Russian avant-garde ideology of autonomy, 35–36
Saga of Billy the Kid, The (Burns), 156
Saint-Amour, Paul, 17, 247–248n41, 259n10
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 140–141
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 1–2
scale, Smith and, 189–197, 200–201, 207–208, 209
scale iconography, 189
Schengen Borders Code, 260n18
Schlegel, Friedrich, 27
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 27
Schwartz, Mattathias, 190
scientific socialism, 124–125
“Scylla and Charybdis” (Joyce), 94
segmentation, in “The Embassy of Cambodia,” 189–190, 191–192, 195, 196
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
Selvon, Sam, 136
Sen, Amartya, 41
Seshagiri, Urmila, 237n39
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
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 173–174
Sinhalese, 256n26
Sinn Féin, 75, 80, 95
“Sisters, The” (Joyce), 83, 84
Slaughter, Joseph, 110, 258n40
Smethurst, James, 118
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
social exposure, 91
socialism: McKay and, 117; utopian vs. scientific, 124–125
socialists, internationalism and, 9–10
social upheaval, limits of aesthetic representation and, 1–2
solidarity: Irish, 74–75; localism of, 192; McKay and race as grounds for, 118. See also international solidarity
Songs of Jamaica (McKay), 116
Souls of Black Folk, The (Du Bois), 19
spectrality, 28
Spinks, Lee, 155
spiritual truancy, McKay and, 116–117
Spivak, Gayatri, 211
Spoo, Robert E., 79, 247n41
Spring in New Hampshire (McKay), 116
Spring of Nations, 80
Sri Lankan civil war. See Anil’s Ghost (Ondaatje)
Stalinism, autonomy and, 35–36
state sovereignty, national autarky and, 8
state-sponsored transnationalism, 123
Steedman, Carolyn, 253n3
Stephen Hero (Joyce), 83, 84, 87, 92, 95
Stephens, Michelle Ann, 251–252n41
Stoler, Ann Laura, 161, 254–255n9, 256n23
stream of consciousness, Smith and, 206–207, 208
subjectivation: Migritude and, 224–225; Negritude poets and, 224
“Sunset of the Century, The” (Tagore), 42, 46; Bengali origins of, 53–54. See also Nationalism (Tagore)
Swadeshi nationalism, 41, 48, 60–62, 65–68, 70–72
symbolic landscape, symbolism of, 151
syntactic decomposition, 206
Szalay, Michael, 261n32
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)
Tagore, Surendranath, 39, 62, 239n3
Tamils, 164, 179, 256n26
taste: collectivity based on shared, 69–70; ethnic stereotype and, 63–64; production of identity and, 64–66; Tagore and, 69–72
Taylor, John F., 79, 245n12
Tebbit, Norman, 217
techne, 28–29
“Telemachus” (Joyce), 94
temperance nationalism, 248n45
temporality: in Anil’s Ghost, 169, 170–171, 177–178; in The Emigrants, 137, 145–147, 148. See also time
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
Thucydides, 174
time: anticolonial, 172–174; deep time, 170–174, 257n33. See also temporality
time capsule metaphor, in Anil’s Ghost, 177–178
Times Literary Supplement (periodical), 44
totality, Smith and, 185–186, 208
translatio, 237n40
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
transmission, 154, 255n12
transnational blackness, 111
transnational citizenship, 109–110
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
Tsing, Anna, 238n61
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 155, 256n16
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
universality: Tagore and, 37–38; Wells and, 37–38
university novel, 26
utopia: Adorno on, 264n10; chimera vs., 231
utopian internationalism, Tagore and, 31
utopianism: combined with realism, 12; internationalism and, 11
utopian socialism, 124–125
utopian universalism, Wells and, 37–38, 39
vagabondage, 125; McKay and, 112, 120–124, 133, 147–148
vagabond internationalism, 125
Valente, Joseph, 78
Velody, Irving, 253n3
vernacular, Lamming’s use of, 139–141
Visva-Bharati (World-India), Tagore and, 61, 72–73
Viswanathan, Gauri, 44
Vogel, Shane, 117
Wald, Priscilla, 257n29
Walkowitz, Rebecca, 15, 42, 236–237n37
Wallace, David Foster, 216
Wallerstein, Immanuel, 186, 208, 213
Washington Consensus, 261n36
wealth inequality, globalization and, 183–184
welfare state, 263n51; decolonization and, 261n31; global inequality and, 210–211; Smith and, 198–199, 261n32
Wells, H. G., 10, 37–38, 39
Westernization, nationalism and, 48–49
West Indian nationalism, 141–142, 145, 146
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
Wilde, Oscar, 87
Wilder, Gary, 18, 141, 241n18
Williams, Bernard, 211
Williams, Raymond, 5, 26–27, 186
Williams, William Carlos, 15
Williamson, John, 261n36
Wilson, Woodrow, 213
Wilsonian internationalism, 11, 25
Winkiel, Laura, 16
Wollaeger, Mark, 16–17
Wood, James, 185, 196, 215–216, 259n6
Woolf, Virginia, 15, 19
World Bank, 261n36
World Social Forum, 10, 183, 223
world state, internationalism and, 10
Yao, Stephen G., 40
Yeats, W. B., 39, 79, 84
Young Islander Rebellion (1848), 80
youthfulness, Banjo and, 121–122