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The passage of literature : genealogies of modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya / Christopher GoGwilt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- GoGwilt, Christopher Lloyd.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Rhys, Jean--Criticism and interpretation.
- Rhys, Jean.
- Toer, Pramoedya Ananta, 1925-2006--Criticism and interpretation.
- Toer, Pramoedya Ananta.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Literature)--Caribbean Area.
- Modernism (Literature)--Indonesia.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Comparative literature--English and Caribbean (English).
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--Caribbean (English) and English.
- Comparative literature--English and Indonesian.
- Comparative literature--Indonesian and English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reevaluating 20th century literature and culture, this book studies the interrelations between English, Creole, and Indonesian formations of literary modernism. Each modernist formation is explained through a set of comparative studies of the fiction of Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer.
- Contents:
- The linguistic-literary coordinates of English, Creole, and Indonesian modernism: Joseph Conrad's Polish English; Jean Rhys's Creole English; Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "pre-Indonesian" Indonesian
- Opera, modernism, and modernity: reading counterpoint in Conrad's Malay trilogy and Pramoedya's Buru tetralogy
- The repetitive formation of English modernism: Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, and the memory of Joseph Conrad
- Jean Rhys's Francophone English and the Creole impasse of modernity
- Creole legacies in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Pramoedya's This earth of mankind
- The vanishing genre of the Nyai narrative: reading genealogies of English and Indonesian modernism
- Decolonizing tradition: Pramoedya's Indonesian modernism
- Postcolonial philology and the passage of literature.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-299) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 17, 2010).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045405-9
- 0-19-933013-1
- 1-283-35274-5
- 9786613352743
- 0-19-978066-8
- OCLC:
- 764414444
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