{"product_id":"the-passage-of-literature-genealogies-of-modernism-in-conrad-rhys-and-pramoedya-9780199330133","title":"The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya","description":"Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are seldom considered in\u003cbr\u003econjunction with one another. \u003cem\u003eThe Passage of Literature \u003c\/em\u003eunites the three in a bracing comparative study that breaks away from traditional conceptions of modernism, going beyond temporal periodization and the entrenched Anglo-American framework that undergirds current scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis study nimbly traces a trio of distinct yet interrelated modernist genealogies. English modernism as exemplified by Conrad's Malay trilogy is productively paired with the hallmark work of Indonesian modernism, Pramoedya's Buru quartet. The two novel sequences, penned years apart, narrate\u003cbr\u003eoverlapping histories of imperialism in the Dutch East Indies, and both make opera central for understanding the cultural dynamic of colonial power. Creole modernism--defined not only by the linguistic diversity of the Caribbean but also by an alternative vision of literary history--provides a\u003cbr\u003etransnational context for reading Rhys's \u003cem\u003eGood Morning, Midnight \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWide Sargasso Sea\u003c\/em\u003e, each novel mapped in relation to the colonial English and postcolonial Indonesian coordinates of Conrad's \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow-Line\u003c\/em\u003e and Pramoedya's \u003cem\u003eThis Earth of Mankind\u003c\/em\u003e. All three modernisms-English, Creole, and\u003cbr\u003eIndonesian-converge in a discussion of the Indonesian figure of the \u003cem\u003enyai\u003c\/em\u003e, a concubine or house servant, who represents the traumatic core of transnational modernism. Throughout the study, Pramoedya's extraordinary effort to reconstruct the lost record of Indonesia's emergence as a nation provides a\u003cbr\u003emodel for reading each fragmentary passage of literature as part of an ongoing process of decolonizing tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on translated and un-translated works of fiction and nonfiction, GoGwilt effectively reexamines the roots of Anglophone modernist studies, thereby laying out the imperatives of a new postcolonial philology even as he resituates European modernism within the literary, linguistic, and\u003cbr\u003ehistorical context of decolonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Gogwilt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199330133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher GoGwilt \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40171864424563,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c17e8694-28dc-418e-a436-56f1e9ba421c.jpg?v=1655212140","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-passage-of-literature-genealogies-of-modernism-in-conrad-rhys-and-pramoedya-9780199330133","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}