After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary

Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms helped remake the twentieth-century world literary system.

Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common

"An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as "Avant-Garde in a Different Key: Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind," Critical Inquiry 40, no. 2 (Winter 2014):

This volume combines a clear overview for those with no prior knowledge or experience of modernism with a subtle argument that will appeal to higher level under