Rajeev S. PATKE studied in Pune and Oxford. He has taught at the National University of Singapore, and is currently Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

This slim and attractive study by Rajeev Patke contributes to the intellectual reassessment of the ways in which modernist literary culture is inflected by colonial an dimperialist history across the globe. … Impressive in its range of reference.

• General Editors’ Preface; Acknowledgements; Timeline; Outline; Chapter 1: Introductory Survey; 1.1 Becoming ‘modern’; 1.2 ‘Modern’ in a postcolonial perspective; 1.3 ‘Otherness’ and the modernist imagination; Chapter 2: Three Debates; 2.1 Modernist literature and the Left; 2.2 Modernist literature and the Right; 2.3 Modernist literature and race; Chapter 3: Case Studies; 3.1 Modernism and gender; 3.2 Modernist allegory; 3.3 Modernism and faith; Bibliography; Suggested Reading; Index.

Rajeev S. PATKE studied in Pune and Oxford. He has taught at the National University of Singapore, and is currently Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

This slim and attractive study by Rajeev Patke contributes to the intellectual reassessment of the ways in which modernist literary culture is inflected by colonial an dimperialist history across the globe. … Impressive in its range of reference.

• General Editors’ Preface; Acknowledgements; Timeline; Outline; Chapter 1: Introductory Survey; 1.1 Becoming ‘modern’; 1.2 ‘Modern’ in a postcolonial perspective; 1.3 ‘Otherness’ and the modernist imagination; Chapter 2: Three Debates; 2.1 Modernist literature and the Left; 2.2 Modernist literature and the Right; 2.3 Modernist literature and race; Chapter 3: Case Studies; 3.1 Modernism and gender; 3.2 Modernist allegory; 3.3 Modernism and faith; Bibliography; Suggested Reading; Index.

Rajeev S. PATKE studied in Pune and Oxford. He has taught at the National University of Singapore, and is currently Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

This slim and attractive study by Rajeev Patke contributes to the intellectual reassessment of the ways in which modernist literary culture is inflected by colonial an dimperialist history across the globe. … Impressive in its range of reference.

• General Editors’ Preface; Acknowledgements; Timeline; Outline; Chapter 1: Introductory Survey; 1.1 Becoming ‘modern’; 1.2 ‘Modern’ in a postcolonial perspective; 1.3 ‘Otherness’ and the modernist imagination; Chapter 2: Three Debates; 2.1 Modernist literature and the Left; 2.2 Modernist literature and the Right; 2.3 Modernist literature and race; Chapter 3: Case Studies; 3.1 Modernism and gender; 3.2 Modernist allegory; 3.3 Modernism and faith; Bibliography; Suggested Reading; Index.