The passage of literature: genealogies of modernism in conrad, rhys, and pramoedya
GoGwilt, Christopher
Through a set of comparative studies of the fiction of Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Passage of Literature explains the interrelation between English, Creole, and Indonesian formations of literary modernism, arguing that each passage of literature is the site of contest between competing genealogies of culture. INDICE: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: The Linguistic-Literary Coordinates ofEnglish, Creole, and Indonesian Modernism: ; PART I: ENGLISH MODERNISM; Chapter 2: Opera, Modernism, and Modernity: Reading Counterpoint in Conrad's Malay Trilogy and Pramoedya's Buru Tetralogy: ; Chapter 3: The Repetitive Formation of English Modernism: Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, and the Memory of Joseph Conrad: ; PART II: CREOLE MODERNISM; Chapter 4: Jean Rhys's Francophone English and the Creole 'impasse' of Modernity: ; Chapter 5: Creole Legacies in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Pramoedya's This Earth of Mankind: ; PART III: INDONESIANMODERNISM; Chapter 6: The Vanishing Genre of the Nyai Narrative: Reading Genealogies of English and Indonesian Modernism: ; CONCLUSION; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-975162-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés