World Modelling: Paradigms of Global Consciousness in and around Virginia Woolf

Cuddy-Keane, Melba

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“…In this ironic sequence, Woolf offers us what we might call a parody of the global imagination, of ‘world modelling’ as Melba Cuddy‐Keane (2010, p. 158) terms it in her attempted reconstruction of ‘global consciousness’ in a writer ‘who does not write extensively and explicitly about travel, geography and cross‐cultural encounters’. Rhoda describes a physical world ‘rounding’ itself by acquiring, from an imagined, blighted Indian landscape, features that confirm the supposed racial superiority and right to rule of Englishmen.…”

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‘Filamentary relations’: Virginia Woolf and India

Chaudhuri

2020

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Woolf's own phrase, 'filamentary relations', referring to threads or filaments, 'webs of nerve', that reach out and touch, but may also snap and break, offers a better metaphor for Woolf's links with India than notions of filiation or affiliation. This essay traces the phrase 'filaments of the nerve' to Alexander Bain's The Senses and the Intellect (1855), the first text to mention a 'stream of consciousness'. I use the trope of the filament to explore the references to India that contextualize characters and histories in Woolf's work, the transnational modernist and anti-imperial print networks within which she was placed and the threads of connection that Indian writers work into their own texts. But just as the affective range of Woolf's textual filaments is limited by location and ideology, there are breaks and ruptures, too, in the networks of transnational modernism. Nevertheless, postcolonial Indian writers can be seen to look back at Woolf through lines of textual relation, filaments that form a postmodern web of connections. The essay offers a reading of responses to Woolf by Indian novelists across three generations:

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Section: Woolf India and ‘World Modelling’mentioning

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‘Filamentary relations’: Virginia Woolf and India

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2020

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World Modelling: Paradigms of Global Consciousness in and around Virginia Woolf

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