Identity In Asian Literature 0700703675, 0700703683

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Table of contents :
Cover
IDENTITY IN ASIAN LITERATURE
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Associative and Dissociative: The 'Self' in Classical and Modern Chinese 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 Modern Indonesian Literature: The Novels of Abdul Moeis and Pramoedya Ananta 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 Modern Japanese Literature: The Case of Natsume Sōseki
9 Framed by Fiction: Malay Literary Characters in the Literatures of Europe, the United States and Asia
10 'The Most Important Thing Is What Happens inside Us': Personal Identity in Palestinian Autobiography
List of Contributors
Index

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