Identity in Asian Literature

ISBN-13: 9780700703685 / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str.

Littrup, Lisbeth

Opis

This work explores the formation of identity in literature from a variety of Asian countries: China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Palestine. The analysis applies new theoretical approaches to identity to indicate the transition from the traditional concept of literature to the modern one.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Associative and Dissociative: the 'Self' in Chinese Classical and Modem Literature 2. Confucius' Self-Identity and the Divine 3. Self-Identity and Allegory in the Fiction of Yu Hua 4. The Religious and Cultural Identity of Rabindranath Tagore 5. Ethnicity in Modem Indonesian Literature: the Novels of Abdul Moeis and Pramoedya Anata Toer 6. 'I Felt Like a Car Without a Driver': Achdiat K. Mihardja's Novel Atheis 7. From Huaqiao to Minzu: Constructing New Identities in Indonesia's Peranakan-Chinese Literature 8. Identity in Modem Japanese Literature. The Case of Natsume Soseki 9. Framed by Fiction: Malay Literary Characters in the Literatures of Europe and Asia 10. 'The Most Important Thing Is What Happens inside Us': Personal

O autorze

Lisbeth Littrup