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Atlantic Gandhi: The Mahatma Overseas by Nalini Natarajan (review)

to forge thematic connections between modernism and postcolonial studies. He presents comparative readings of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, and Nick Joaquin and Arun Kolatakar. Patke also reads Franz Kafka within the tradition of allegory to suggest that Kafka’s work opens up to more global considerations of how allegory challenges realist modes of representation that are often associated with empire. Throughout the book, Patke deftly contextualizes his two key terms in ways that are accessible to readers unfamiliar with modernism and/or postcolonial studies while also making innovative and suggestive connections between the two traditions for those more familiar with the fields. He draws on the work of a wide range of scholars to advance his understanding of both modernist literature and postcolonial studies. His text has especially provocative implications for rethinking comparative possibilities and understanding diachronic implications of themes and concepts that emerge from both colonialism and modernism. For, as Pake underscores, the “‘modern’ and ‘colonial’, the ‘postmodern’ and ‘postcolonial’ are complexly interrelated, then and now” (139).