In Chimeras of Form, Aarthi Vadde rethinks the vintage thought of modernist internationalism in and past Europe. She explains how a wide-ranging workforce of writers used modernist literary kinds to form principles of overseas belonging within the wake of imperialism. Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce, Claude McKay, George Lamming, Michael Ondaatje, and Zadie Smith puzzled conventional expectancies of aesthetic shape and, in doing so, forged doubt on parallel notions of the solidarity and wholeness of political communities.

Drawing on her shut readings of person texts and on literary, postcolonial, and cosmopolitical conception, Vadde indicates how those writers’ formal experiments took half in debates approximately transnational interdependence and social legal responsibility. She reads Joyce’s use of asymmetrical narratives which will ask questions about foreign camaraderie and demonstrates how the “plotless” works of Claude McKay upturn principles of citizenship and diasporic alienation. Her research of the modern writers Zadie Smith and Shailja Patel indicates how present-day questions in terms of migration, displacement, and monetary inequality hyperlink modernism and postcolonial literature. Vadde illustrates how writers have reimagined the state and internationalism in a interval outlined by means of globalization, revealing the twin nature of internationalism as an aspiration, in all probability a chimeric one, and a precise political discourse.