Mutations of progress: Evolution and civilisation in the Indonesian Archipelago

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" Mutations of progress: Evolution and civilisation in the Indonesian Archipelago "
Tiffany Aimee Tsao I. Duncan

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	55255
Doc. No	:	TL25209
Call number	:	‭3411060‬
Main Entry	:	Tiffany Aimee Tsao
Title & Author	:	Mutations of progress: Evolution and civilisation in the Indonesian Archipelago\ Tiffany Aimee Tsao
College	:	University of California, Berkeley
Date	:	2009
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2009
Page No	:	216
Abstract	:	This dissertation is a literary study of how four different writers employ the Indonesian Archipelago as a setting in which to conceive of human civilisation as a movement away from the material reality of Darwinian natural selection. The writers featured are the nineteenth-century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, British-Polish writer Joseph Conrad, the Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and the British-Chinese novelist Timothy Mo. In their works, the immense cultural and racial diversity of the region, as well as its history of political and economic conflict, makes it a site peculiarly suited to exploring the dynamics between the savage struggle for existence which characterises material existence, and human attempts to evolve out of that savagery to achieve a state of civilisation. However, because such attempts go against the fundamental nature of earthly existence, they are doomed to failure.
Subject	:	Language, literature and linguistics; Indonesia; Evolution; Civilization; Progress; Pramoedya Ananta Toer; Conrad, Joseph; Britain; Comparative literature; Asian literature; British and Irish literature; 0593:British and Irish literature; 0305:Asian literature; 0295:Comparative literature
Added Entry	:	I. Duncan
Added Entry	:	University of California, Berkeley