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

Lim, David C. L. (2011) Agency and the Pedagogy of Japanese Colonialism in Tan Twan Eng's The Gift of Rain. Critique, 52 (2). pp. 233-247.

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Abstract

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR].

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: agency, colonialism, homoerotics, ideology, Japan, Japanese Occupation, Malaya, Malaysia, Tan Twan Eng
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Divisions: Vice President (Learner Management & Campus Development) Office
Depositing User: Shahril Effendi Ibrahim
Date Deposited: 12 Apr 2011 03:40
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2012 04:13
URI: http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/id/eprint/559

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