Reading Fiction, Reading Politics: Transnational Modernism and Political Commitment

Lecture by Jessica Berman, Department of English, UMBC. Modernist literature has long been accused of turning away from social and political concerns to focus on aesthetic experimentation and the representation of inner life. Yet political literature from the mid-20th century seems to do the opposite, rejecting modernist experimentation in order to focus on a particular end. By looking at connections between politics and narrative experimentation in novels from late-colonial India and the Spanish Civil War, Dr. Berman shows, instead, the ways that modernist fiction can be read as deeply political.

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The question at 51:03 was spot on, but the answer was pathetic - like the whole lecture.

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