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Table of Contents:

• The linguistic-literary coordinates of English, Creole, and Indonesian modernisms
• Opera, modernism, and modernity: reading counterpoint in Joseph 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.

Author/Creator:

GoGwilt, Christopher Lloyd

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The passage of literature: genealogies of modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya [by GoGwilt, C.L.]

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

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924

Rhys, Jean

Toer, Pramoedya Ananta, 1925-2006

Criticism and interpretation

Modernism (Literature)

Caribbean Area

Indonesia

Great Britain

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

PR888.M63 G64 2011

ISBNs:

9780199751624 (hbk.)
0199751625 (hbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

553368200
701279369 [Invalid]