Christopher Gogwilt

The Passage of Literature

Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya

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Produktbeschreibung

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 among English, Creole, and Indonesian formations of literary modernism, arguing that each passage of literature is the site of contest between competing genealogies of culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780199330133
• ISBN-10: 0199330131
• Artikelnr.: 37649754

Autorenporträt

Christopher GoGwilt is Professor of English at Fordham University. His previous books are The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock (Stanford, 2000), and The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire (Stanford, 1995).

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION
* Chapter 1: The Linguistic-Literary Coordinates of English, 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: INDONESIAN MODERNISM
* Chapter 6: The Vanishing Genre of the Nyai Narrative: Reading
Genealogies of English and Indonesian Modernism
* Chapter 7: Decolonizing Tradition: Pramoedya's Indonesian Modernism
* CONCLUSION
* Chapter 8: Postcolonial Philology and the Passage of Literature
* Bibliography