Introduction / Lisbeth Littrup -- 1. Associative and Dissociative: the 'Self' in Chinese Classical and Modern Literature / Chen Maiping -- 2. Confucius' Self-Identity and the Divine / Pertti Nikkila -- 3. Self-Identity and Allegory in the Fiction of Yu Hua / Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg -- 4. The Religious and Cultural Identity of Rabindranath Tagore / Sergie D. Serebriany -- 5. Ethnicity in Modern Indonesian Literature: the Novels of Abdul Moeis and Pramoedya Anata Toer / Mason C. Hoadley -- 6. 'I Felt Like a Car Without a Driver': Achdiat K. Mihardja's Novel Atheis / Hendrik M. J. Maier -- 7. From Huaqiao to Minzu: Constructing New Identities in Indonesia's Peranakan-Chinese Literature / Thomas Rieger -- 8. Identity in Modern Japanese Literature. The Case of Natsume Soseki
Notes
"Based on papers presented at a workshop on "Identity in Asian Literature", which took place at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen in March 1993"--Pref