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Urmila Seshagiri
Researcher at University of Tennessee
Publications - 6
Citations - 119
Urmila Seshagiri is an academic researcher from University of Tennessee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dance & Postcolonial literature. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications receiving 113 citations.
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Modernist Ashes, Postcolonial Phoenix: Jean Rhys and the Evolution of the English Novel in the Twentieth Century
TL;DR: The authors argue that in order to understand the English novel's postcolonial turn in the middle of the twentieth century, we should revisit Voyage in the Dark and its interventions into British literary modernism.
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Making it New: Persephone Books and the Modernist Project
TL;DR: Persephone Books as mentioned in this paper is an independent feminist publisher in London that recuperates lost modern writing by restoring neglected authors to their places in modernist literary genealogy, and furthering our understanding of modernist cultural production in the fields of literature, visual arts, textile and fashion design, and war propaganda.
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Orienting Virginia Woolf: Race, Aesthetics, and Politics in To the Lighthouse
TL;DR: To the Lighthouse (1927) as mentioned in this paper is a novel that re-invented the racial philosophy of Roger Fry's formalist tract Vision and Design (1920), as well as the racially marked modernite of the Omega Workshops' art-objects.
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Race and the Modernist Imagination
TL;DR: Seshagiri as mentioned in this paper found that race served as an engine for the creation of new literary forms by a wide range of writers, including Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf.
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What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and invention of the Canon by Ankhi Mukherjee (review)
TL;DR: Lindon Barrett, Blackness and value: Seeing Double (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of African American literature and culture.