Modernism in James Joyce’s Ulysses and Wole Soyinka’s the Interpreters

The purpose of this dissertation is to challenge the orthodox view of modernism as an art dismissive of politics, history and social commitment and as exclusively oriented towards style, technique and cosmopolitanism. by comparing james joyce's ulysses and wole soyinka's the interpreters, we aim at redefining european and african modernism through taking the colonial and postcolonial contexts into account and employing a neo-marxist critical approach to assess the political implications of the modernist mode of writing.