TY - BOOK AU - Majumdar, Saikat TI - Prose of the world: modernism and the banality of empire SN - 9788125051237 U1 - 823.909 PY - 2013/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Blackswan Private Limited N1 - Includes bibliography and index; Introduction: Poetics of the Prosaic i I. James Joyce and the Banality of Refusal 37 2. Katherine Mansfield and the Fragility of Pakeha Boredom 71 3. The Dailiness of Trauma and Liberation in Zoe Wicomb 101 4. Amit Chaudhuri and the Materiality of the Mimdane 135 Epilogue: The Uneventful 169 ER -