The Passage of Literature - Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya

Presents a comparative study of modernism through the works of Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer.

About the author

Christopher GoGwilt is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He is the author of The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire and The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock.

Summary

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 the site of contest between competing genealogies of culture.

Additional text

GoGwilt's practice of postcolonial philology offers modernist studies a rich theoretical approach through which to intimately connect, rather than merely multiply, transnational modernist movements. More importantly, he demonstrates how such readings can do ample justice to the historical and material interrelations of these modernisms.

Product details

• Authors: Gogwilt, Christopher Gogwilt, GoGwilt Christopher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2010
• EAN: 9780199751624
• ISBN: 978-0-19-975162-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Historical & comparative linguistics, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Historical and comparative linguistics