"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Associative and dissociative : the "self" in Chinese classical and modern literature / Chen Maiping -- Confucius' self-identity and the divine / Pertti nikkilä -- Self-identity and allegory in the fiction of Yu Hua / Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg -- The religious and cultural identity of Rabindranath Tagore / Sergei D. Serebriany -- Ethnicity in modern Indonesian literature : the novels of Abdul Moeis and Pramoedya Anata Toer / Mason C. Hoadley -- "I felt like a car without a driver" : Achdiat K. Mihardja's novel Atheis / Hendrik M.J. Maier -- From Huaqiao to Minzu : constructing new identies in Indonesia's Perankan-Chinese literature / Thomas Rieger -- Identity in modern Japanese literature : the case of Natsume Sōseki / Noriko Thunman -- Framed by fiction : Malay literary characters in literatures of Europe and Asia / Muhammad Haji Salleh -- "The most important thing is what happens inside us" : personal identity in Palestinian autobiography / Tetz Rooke.