REVIEW: Noted: Faux footnotes and a false frontispiece
Dakawaku, by Anurag Subramanai. Honolulu: Lo’ihi Press, 2021. 327 pages. THIS book tries very hard to be very clever, with a thousand literary, Pacific and other allusions dripping from every page and a writing style that is (I think) intended (perhaps) to mirror the comic prose of Swift and Bos...
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Dakawaku, by Anurag Subramanai. Honolulu: Lo’ihi Press, 2021. 327 pages.
THIS book tries very hard to be very clever, with a thousand literary, Pacific and other allusions dripping from every page and a writing style that is (I think) intended (perhaps) to mirror the comic prose of Swift and Boswell. There are copious faux footnotes, a false frontispiece, addenda, exhortations to the reader and other literary devices that have not been seen since the steam press was invented. It is, in short (possibly) an attempt at what we used to call a picaresque novel in first year lit.
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| spelling | doaj.art-079023d9d72741f5afe54539e3cdac7b2022-12-22T00:59:20ZengAsia Pacific NetworkPacific Journalism Review1023-94992324-20352022-07-01281 & 210.24135/pjr.v28i1and2.1255REVIEW: Noted: Faux footnotes and a false frontispiecePhilip Cass0Unitec Dakawaku, by Anurag Subramanai. Honolulu: Lo’ihi Press, 2021. 327 pages. THIS book tries very hard to be very clever, with a thousand literary, Pacific and other allusions dripping from every page and a writing style that is (I think) intended (perhaps) to mirror the comic prose of Swift and Boswell. There are copious faux footnotes, a false frontispiece, addenda, exhortations to the reader and other literary devices that have not been seen since the steam press was invented. It is, in short (possibly) an attempt at what we used to call a picaresque novel in first year lit. https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/1255allusionsfictionFijifootnotesIndo-Fijiannovel |
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