{"id":1567,"date":"2019-02-24T19:10:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T19:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/press\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2024-04-09T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:23:29","slug":"modern-writers-transnational-literatures","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/books\/modern-writers-transnational-literatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book addresses W. B. Yeats\u2019s and Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s engagements with identity, nationalism, and the literary and cultural traditions of Ireland and India. It offers a fresh critical perspective on their work from the beginning of the twentieth century, the point at which their international collaborations most significantly influence the cross-border lives of their literature. <em>Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures<\/em> foregrounds the Yeats-Tagore relationship, providing a new analysis of the fraught beginning to Tagore\u2019s international fame and the value of reading his English translations as original texts (as is done by many English-language readers). Exploring the thematic parallels and generic innovations in the works of Yeats and Tagore allows readers to recognize the significant moments of tension and divergence in their oeuvres. Reading Yeats and Tagore comparatively offers a timely historical perspective on how the nationalized valences of identity and selfhood might become transnational in contemporary readings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMohite succeeds in her aim to particularize a mode of reading derived from the study of world literature: the thematic and creative equivalences drawn from a transhistorical perspective secure <em>Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures<\/em> as a significant intervention in literary discourses on modernism, transnationalism, and world literatures.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Jinan Ashraf, <em>The Modernist Review<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through the interpretation of impacts, influences, and creative reception, Mohite&#8217;s book on Yeats and Tagore may become the paradigm in the discussions of the role of literature in the contemporary world.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014Mina M. \u0110uri\u0107, <i>Review of Irish Studies<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question of Yeats\u2019s postcolonial credentials (his &#8216;cosmopolitan nativism&#8217;, as Jahan Ramazani has called it) is considered at length, and illuminated by the non-Western framework and a close attention to subaltern modernisms in all their variety\u2026 Mohite\u2019s conceptualizing of the transnational as a model for reading these poets has much to teach students of Irish poetry, and this study deserves a wide readership.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014David Wheatley, <em>Year\u2019s Work in English Studies<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":171,"template":"","subject":[35,36,37],"browse_by_series":[],"browse_by_imprints":[],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-1567","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-irish-literature","subject-literature","subject-modernism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5032,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1567\/revisions\/5032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}