Newly Discrepant Engagements:A Review of Three Recent Critical Works in Modernist Postcolonial Studies

Abstract

Considered of The literary Idea of collectively, criticism a Colonyy we a the cross-cultural might volumes call reviewed modernist study of here Anglo-American, postcolonial represent a studies. spectrum AfriIn Considered of literary criticism we might call modernist postcolonial studies. In The Idea f a Colonyy a cross-cultural study of Anglo-American, African American, and Indian modern poetries, Edward Marx deploys a critical approach to colonial alterity that actually reproduces, rather than sufficiently problematizes, the primitivist and exoticist othering of Eastern and Southern cultures by high modernism. In Confluences , John Cullen Gruesser globalizes African American studies by bringing that field into dialogue with postcolonial theory and literatures, as well as theorizations of the Black Atlantic. Charles W. Pollard's New World Modernisms successfully produces a postcolonial reading, and essentially a new understanding, of Anglo-American high modernism through his consideration of how the work by AfroCaribbean poets