Cloud of unknowing, tower of silk : narratives of the noumenal in the harmony silk factory

• Main Author: Wee, Samuel Ting Han
• Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65613
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Much has been made about the polyphonic narrative structure of Tash Aw’s debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory. While critics such as Mukherjee have praised the “lucid, uncluttered, beautiful” quality of his prose (“The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw”, Mukherjee), the lacuna the three unreliable na...