On Transnational Modernisms

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Notes

¹ Eliot, American Literature and the American Language 12.

² Ibid., 13.

³ Ibid., 11. For American linguistic nationalism, see, for example, Mencken's hugely popular, The American Language.

⁴ For a survey of the “transnational turn,” see Mao and Walkowitz, “The New Modernist Studies.”

⁵ Patterson acknowledges the work of several other critics who focus on the relation between modernism and black and postcolonial writers, especially Dash, The Other America (1998); Gikandi, Writing in ( 1992); Ramazani, The Hybrid (2001) and “A Transnational Poetics” (2006); Pollard, New World (2003); and Handley, New World Poetics (2007).

⁶ For the metic (resident alien) Eliot of the 1910s and ‘20s, see Rabaté, ““Tradition and T. S. Eliot,” 210–22. For Eliot's late insularity, see Esty, A Shrinking Island, esp. 108–62. For the argument that Eliot's assumption of an English identity finally trumps his cosmopolitanism, see Coetzee, Stranger Shores, 1–19, esp. 3.

⁷ Eliot, For Lancelot Andrewes, vii.

⁸ Eliot, Notes Toward a Definition of Culture, in Christianity and Culture, 125.

⁹ Patterson's index is light on conceptual terms, but “racial nationalism” is an important exception. See, for example, her account of Walcott's anxieties about Trinidadian Black Nationalism (167–68).

¹⁰ Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 247–8.

¹¹ That said, let me take this moment to complain about Cambridge's approach to book titles, which is clearly designed to produce a string of search-engine-ready keywords. Patterson and Winkiel bear no responsibility for this, of course, but it's a pity that such lively books should carry such dully interchangeable titles.