Descript |
xiv, 336 p. ; 25 cm. |
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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ISBN |
9780199751624 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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