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Teoh, Jacqulyn Gaik Ing.

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Niche Formations: Rethinking Literary Opportunity in Modern Southeast Asian Literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Niche Formations: Rethinking Literary Opportunity in Modern Southeast Asian Literature./
Author:	Teoh, Jacqulyn Gaik Ing.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	275 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02B.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28651539
ISBN:	9798535509297

Niche Formations: Rethinking Literary Opportunity in Modern Southeast Asian Literature.
Teoh, Jacqulyn Gaik Ing.

Niche Formations: Rethinking Literary Opportunity in Modern Southeast Asian Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 275 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation is about a ubiquitous yet ambiguous term in contemporary literary discourse: niche. Over the past century, niche has migrated from its origins in architectural terminology to become a generative conceptual metaphor in disciplines as disparate as ecology, economics, and sociology. Curiously, however, niche has not gained like traction in literary studies even as it is present in scholarship across literary fields and frequently used in popular literary criticism. While this pervasiveness of and yet lack of critical attention to the term as it is used in literary discussions means that its definition is often taken for granted, it also means that the term possesses a certain utility for our understanding of literary phenomena despite there remaining about it a slipperiness. This dissertation consequently investigates the uses and utility of niche within literary studies. By drawing on previous theorizations of the concept in other disciplines, it argues for a conceptualization of niche in literary studies that goes beyond the term's typical usage as a signifier of a smallness to mean, rather, a term that captures a particular relationship between an author and the sociohistorical conditions attendant to their moment of writing - one that is exploitative. In recasting literary objects such as the oeuvre of Joseph Conrad, the cultural politics of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet, and the impact of Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer along with the legacy of its publisher, Grove Press, as niche formations, this dissertation shows that the concept of the niche enables literary scholars to reconsider current rubrics for understanding transnational literary interactions and the way change occurs in the contemporary literary landscape.

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