TY - BOOK ID - 78422678 TI - Indigenous Vanguards PY - 2019 SN - 9780231163729 9780231548960 0231548966 023116372X PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Education, Colonial KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Modernism (Aesthetics) KW - National liberation movements KW - Decolonization KW - Postcolonialism KW - Aesthetics KW - Liberation movements, National KW - Nationalism KW - Revolutions KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Political science KW - Sovereignty KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Colonization KW - Aboriginal peoples KW - Aborigines KW - Adivasis KW - Indigenous populations KW - Native peoples KW - Native races KW - Ethnology KW - Colonial education KW - History KW - Education KW - National liberation movements. KW - Decolonization. KW - Postcolonialism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78422678 AB - Anticolonial struggles of the interwar epoch were haunted by the question of how to construct an educational practice for all future citizens of postcolonial states. In what ways, vanguard intellectuals asked, would citizens from diverse subaltern situations be equally enabled to participate in a nonimperial society and world? In circumstances of cultural and social crisis imposed by colonialism, these vanguards sought to refashion modern structures and technologies of public education by actively relating them to residual indigenous collective forms.In Indigenous Vanguards, Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical and historical account of literary engagements with structures and representations of public teaching and learning by cultural vanguards in the colonial world from the 1920s to the 1940s. He shows how modernizing educative projects existed in complex tension with impulses to indigenize national liberation movements, and how this tension manifests as a central aspect of modernist literary practice. Offering new readings of figures such as Alain Locke, Léopold Senghor, Aimé Césaire, D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Baer discloses the limits and openings of modernist representations as they attempt to reach below the fissures of class that produce them. Establishing unexpected connections between languages and regions, Indigenous Vanguards is the first study of modernism and colonialism that encompasses the decisive way public education transformed modernist aesthetics and vanguard politics. ER -