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Radio empire : the BBC's Eastern Service and the emergence of the global anglophone novel / Daniel Ryan Morse.

"The BBC's Empire Service was a cauldron of global modernism. James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake found an audience among radio listeners in India, while C. L. R. James read his anticolonial novel The Black Jacobins to listeners throughout the British empire. Writers tested aesthetics,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Morse, Daniel Ryan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Series:Modernist latitudes.
Subjects:
BBC World Service > History > 20th century.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > Foreign countries > History and crticism.
Radio broadcasting, British > History > 20th century.
Radio and literature > Great Britain.
BBC World Service.
English fiction.
Radio and literature.
Radio broadcasting, British.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Finnegans Waves: James Joyce Between the BBC and 2RN
  • Reviewing Some Books: E. M. Forster as Blind Uncle
  • The End of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand's Comparative Modernisms
  • Intimate and Kaleidosonic Styles: Attia Hosain, Venu Chitale, and the Hybrid Novel
  • Epilogue: The Eastern Service in the Era of Decolonization.

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