Identity in Asian literature
By: edited by Lisbeth Littrup.
Contributors: Littrup, Lisbeth.; Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
Series: Studies in Asian topics,; 21; Studies on Asian topics ;; no. 21.
Publisher: Curzon Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Richmond, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Oriental literature -- History and criticism.; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Based on papers presented at a workshop on "Identity in Asian Literature", which took place at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen in March 1993"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Associative and dissociative : the "self" in Chinese classical and modern literature / Chen Maiping; title: Confucius' self-identity and the divine / Pertti nikkilä; title: Self-identity and allegory in the fiction of Yu Hua / Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg; title: The religious and cultural identity of Rabindranath Tagore / Sergei D. Serebriany; title: Ethnicity in modern Indonesian literature : the novels of Abdul Moeis and Pramoedya Anata Toer / Mason C. Hoadley; title: "I felt like a car without a driver" : Achdiat K. Mihardja's novel Atheis / Hendrik M.J. Maier; title: From Huaqiao to Minzu : constructing new identies in Indonesia's Perankan-Chinese literature / Thomas Rieger; title: Identity in modern Japanese literature : the case of Natsume Sōseki / Noriko Thunman; title: Framed by fiction : Malay literary characters in literatures of Europe and Asia / Muhammad Haji Salleh; title: "The most important thing is what happens inside us" : personal identity in Palestinian autobiography / Tetz Rooke.