The passage of literature
Subtitle: genealogies of modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya
By: Christopher GoGwilt.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780199751624
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph, -- 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Rhys, Jean -- Criticism and interpretation; Toer, Pramoedya Ananta, -- 1925-2006 -- Criticism and interpretation; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Modernism (Literature) -- Caribbean Area; Modernism (Literature) -- Indonesia; Postcolonialism in literature; Comparative literature -- English and Caribbean (English); Comparative literature -- Caribbean (English) and English; Comparative literature -- English and Indonesian; Comparative literature -- Indonesian and English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Opera, modernism, and modernity: reading counterpoint in Conrad's Malay trilogy and Pramoedya's Buru tetralogy; title: The repetitive formation of English modernism: Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, and the memory of Joseph Conrad; title: Jean Rhys's Francophone English and the Creole impasse of modernity; title: Creole legacies in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Pramoedya's This earth of mankind; title: The vanishing genre of the Nyai narrative: reading genealogies of English and Indonesian modernism; title: Decolonizing tradition: Pramoedya's Indonesian modernism; title: Postcolonial philology and the passage of literature.