Cheow Thia Chan

Malaysian Crossings

Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that Mahua authorsâ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus forâ rather than a barrier toâ aesthetic inventiveness.

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Produktdetails

• Global Chinese Culture
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780231203395
• ISBN-10: 023120339X
• Artikelnr.: 64079001

Autorenporträt

Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization, Characters, and Translation
Introduction: Southern Crossings: The Covert Globality of Mahua Literature
1. Doubly Local: Lin Cantian and the Contrapuntal Genesis of Mahua
Novelistic Fiction
2. Channeling Exemplarity: Han Suyin's Bifocal Writing Practice in Malaya
3. Cosmopolitan Visions of Drift: Wang Anyi and the Relay of Diasporic
Literary Imagination
4. Off-Center Articulations: Li Yongping's Transregional Literary
Production
Coda: Always the Internal Other: Mahua Literature and the Recognition of
Alterity
Notes
Bibliography
Index