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BL
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711708
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b533897
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| Main Entry
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GoGwilt, Christopher Lloyd.
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| Title & Author
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The passage of literature : : genealogies of modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya /\ Christopher GoGwilt
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2011
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1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages)
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| ISBN
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0199751625
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: 9780199751624
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The linguistic-literary coordinates of English, Creole, and Indonesian modernisms -- 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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| Abstract
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Reevaluating 20th century literature and culture, this book studies the interrelations between English, Creole, and Indonesian formations of literary modernism. Each modernist formation is explained through a set of comparative studies of the fiction of Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Comparative literature-- Caribbean (English) and English
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Comparative literature-- English and Caribbean (English)
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Comparative literature-- English and Indonesian
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Comparative literature-- Indonesian and English
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Modernism (Literature)-- Caribbean Area.
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Modernism (Literature)-- Indonesia.
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Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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823.91209
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PR888.M63G64 2011
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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