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Article: Nicholas Brown. Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth Century Literature.(Book review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2007
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Nicholas Brown. Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth Century Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 1 + 235 pp. $26.95
In Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth Century Literature, Nicholas Brown proposes to refashion the relative literary and political positions occupied by modernism and postcolonial African literature. For Brown, Marxism illuminates the political vicissitudes of modernism's appropriation and subjection of the labor of African literature to the evaluative modes of literary theory as a final product of capital. Modernism's self-satisfaction and commoditization of the raw material and labor ...