 | Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism Subjects: Education Colonial -- History -- 20th century; Indigenous peoples -- Education -- History -- 20th cenetury; Modernism (Aesthetics); National liberation movements; Decolonization; Postcolonialism; Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical and historical account of the relationships between modern literature, representations of indigeneity, and educative practices in colonial zones from the 192s to the 194s, encompassing the central place of teaching and learning both in modernist aesthetics and on the part of writer-activists. Ben Conisbee Baer is associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. He translated and introduced Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's landmark modern Bengali novel The Tale of Hansuli Turn (Columbia, 2011). |
