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

• 主要作者: Karunungan, Patricia
• 其他作者: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• 格式: Thesis-Master by Research
• 語言: English
• 出版: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• 主題: Humanities::Literature::English; Humanities::History::Asia::Southeastern Asia
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/136754
• 機構: 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...