Abstract:The texts and figures that populate Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism beyond Europe, 1914-2016 are awkward iconoclasts: instead of James Joyce, posterfigure for modernist cosmopolitanism, we encounter Joyce the grudging chronicler of postcolonial Ireland, alienated from both Irish nationalists and the "overweening pretensions of the 'European family.' " 1 Rabindranath Tagore appears not as the Nobel Prize-winning sage of universal humanism but a beleaguered writer dogged by Indian nationalists for f… Show more
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