Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China (eBook, PDF)

Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique
Redaktion: Kang Liu, Liu

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to the experience of the modern.With chapters by writers, scholars, and critics from mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States, this volume explores the complexity of representing modernity within the Chinese context. Addressing the problem of finding a proper language for articulating fundamental issues in the historical experience of twentieth-century China, the authors critically re-examine notions of realism, the self/subject, and modernity and draw on perspectives from feminist criticism, ideological analysis, and postmodern theory. Among the many topics explored are subjectivity in Chinese cultural theory, Chinese gender relations, the viability of a Lacanian approach to Chinese identity, the politics of subversion in Chinese reportage, and the ambivalent status of the icon of paternity since Mao.At the same time this book offers a probing look into the transformation that Chinese culture as well as the study of that culture is currently undergoing, it also reconfirms private discourse as an ideal site for an investigation into a real and imaginary, private and collective encounter with history.Contributors. Liu Kang, Xiaobing Tang, Liu Zaifu, Stephen Chan, Lydia H. Liu, Wendy Larson, Theodore Huters, David Wang, Tonglin Lu, Yingjin Zhang, Yuejin Wang, Li Tuo, Leo Ou-fan Lee

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 1993
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822381846
• Artikelnr.: 54929264

Autorenporträt

Kang Liu and Xiaobing Tang, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Fredric Jameson
Introduction / Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang
Part One Problematics of Subjectivity and Modernity
Subjectivity, Marxism, and Cultural Theory in China / Liu Kang
The Subjectivity of Literature Revisited / Liu Zaifu
Split China, or, The Historical/Imaginary: Toward a Theory of the
Displacement of Subjectivity at the Margins of Modernity / Ching-kiu
Stephen Chan
Narratives of Modern Selfhood: First-Person Fiction in May Fourth
Literature / Lydia H. Liu
Female Subjectivity and Gender Relations: The Early Stories of Lu Yin and
Bing Xin / Wendy Larson
Part Two Representation, Realism, and the Question of History
Ideologies of Realism in Modern China: The Hard Imperatives of Imported
Theory / Theodore Huters
Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Decapitation / David D. W. Wang
Red Sorghum: Limits of Transgression / Tonglin Lu
Part Three Cultural Critique and Ideology
Narrative, Ideology, Subjectivity: Defining a Subversive Discourse in
Chinese Reportage / Yingjin Zhang
Anxiety of Portraiture: Quest for/Questioning Ancestral Icons in Post-Mao
China / Yuejin Wang
Resisting Writing / Li Tuo
The Function of New Theory: What Does It Mean to Talk about Postmodernism
in China? / Xiaobing Tang
Postscript / Leo Ou-fan Lee
Index
Contributors