Agency and the Pedagogy of Japanese Colonialism in Tan Twan Eng'sThe Gift of Rain

Autor:	David C.L. Lim
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Literature History Literature and Literary Theory business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Agency (philosophy) Representation (arts) Colonialism Displacement (linguistics) Romance Aesthetics Reading (process) Ideology Transcendental number business media_common
Zdroj:	Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 52:233-247
ISSN:	1939-9138 0011-1619
DOI:	10.1080/00111610903380162
Popis:	What is the location of agency? And to what extent do historical contingencies and other causalities set the limits of self-autonomy, particularly during the time of Japanese colonialism? This article critically examines how these questions are explored in Tan Twan Eng's novel, The Gift of Rain, essentially the protagonist's autonarrative. Reading the text beyond its popular and authorial representation, and teasing out its homoerotic kernel, I make a case against the protagonist's romantic displacement of agency to the transcendental heart, arguing that Philip Hutton, the protagonist, is in the final account not only far more unfree than he believes, he is also much freer than he knows.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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