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The passage of literature, genealogies of modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya, Christopher GoGwilt

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The passage of literature, genealogies of modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya, Christopher GoGwilt
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The passage of literature
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Christopher GoGwilt
Sub title
genealogies of modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya
Table Of Contents
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 -- Opera, modernism, and modernity: reading counterpoint in 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
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