{"product_id":"radio-empire-daniel-ryan-morse-9780231198370","title":"Radio Empire: The Bbc's Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eInitially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated Indian audience, its programming provided remarkable moments: Listeners in India heard James Joyce reading from \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake \u003c\/i\u003eon the eve of independence, as well as the literary criticism of E. M. Forster and the works of Indian writers living in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRadio Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Ryan Morse demonstrates the significance of the Eastern Service for global Anglophone literature and literary broadcasting. He traces how modernist writers used radio to experiment with form and introduce postcolonial literature to global audiences. While innovative authors consciously sought to incorporate radio's formal features into the novel, literature also exerted a reciprocal and profound influence on twentieth-century broadcasting. Reading Joyce and Forster alongside Attia Hosain, Mulk Raj Anand, and Venu Chitale, Morse demonstrates how the need to appeal to listeners at the edges of the empire pushed the boundaries of literary work in London, inspired high-cultural broadcasting in England, and formed an invisible but influential global network. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdding a transnational perspective to scholarship on radio modernism, \u003ci\u003eRadio Empire\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the history of broadcasting outside of Western Europe offers a new understanding of the relationship between colonial center and periphery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Ryan Morse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 023119837X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231198370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021","brand":"Daniel Ryan Morse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978541433087,"sku":"9780231198370","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b921561c-7086-4dbb-905b-badd2ee449db.jpg?v=1683242059","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/radio-empire-daniel-ryan-morse-9780231198370","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}