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 an…
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,…
Through a set of comparative studies of the fiction of Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 'The Passage of Literature' explains the interrelation between English, Creole, and Indonesian formations of literary modernism, arguing that each passage of literature is…
"This far-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism brings the problems of the postcolonial condition to bear on the philosophy of freedom. Closely identified with totalitarianism and fundamentalism, the nation-state …