Modernist Voyages
Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945

This book examines colonial women writers who traveled to London in the modernist period, and the significance of gender to empire and modernism.

Anna Snaith (Author)

9780521515450, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 February 2014

296 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg

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 original study provides an alternative 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.

Introduction
1. Olive Schreiner: diamonds, prostitution and From Man to Man
2. Sarojini Naidu: feminist nationalism and cross-cultural poetics
3. Sara Jeannette Duncan: A Canadian Girl in London
4. Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernism and the magazines
5. Jean Rhys: 'A Savage from the Cannibal Islands'
6. Una Marson: 'Little brown girl' in a 'white, white city'
7. Christina Stead: transnationalism and the sea voyage
Afterword
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: general [DSB]