"Jokes are the hardest thing to translate": parodying history and nationhood in contemporary Southeast Asian Novels

• Main Author: Karunungan, Patricia
• Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature::English; Humanities::History::Asia::Southeastern Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/136754
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Although postcolonial fictions may be classified under modernism and postmodernism for their subversive uses of language, a marked absence of technical innovation seems to persist in anglophone Southeast Asian novels. However, it is more accurate to say that little critical attention has thus far be...