Reading China Against the Grain (eBook, ePUB)

Imagining Communities
Redaktion: Rojas, Carlos; Sung, Mei-Hwa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through an analysis of a wide array of contemporary Chinese literature from inside and outside of China, this volume considers some of the ways in which China and Chineseness are understood and imagined.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000216615
• Artikelnr.: 60085643

Autorenporträt

Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Genders, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books on global Chinese literature and culture. Mei-hwa Sung received her PhD in English from Brown University in 1983 and has taught at National Taiwan University, Tamkang University, and Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). She has a long record of professional service, including the editorship of Chung-Wai Literary Monthly and Tamkang Review. She has published essays and books on eighteenth-century English literature, gender studies, and Taiwan fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Mainland China 1. Allegorizing History: Realism and Fantasy in Mo
Yan's Fictional China 2. Unattainable Maturity: Yu Hua's Cries in the
Drizzle as an Anti-Bildungsroman 3. Frankenstein vs. Dracula: Romanticisms
and the Ideologies of Poetry in Contemporary China 4. Fanhua, Global
Modernism, and the Art of Detachment Part 2: Border Regions 5. Wolf Totem:
An Allegory of the Future 6. Writing the Motherland(s) on Their Borders:
Kim Hak-ch'¿l and His Cultural Criticism of Maoist China 7. Keeping to the
Margins: Macau Literature and a Pre-postcolonial "Poetics of
Insignificance" 8. Explaining "Graphs" and Analyzing "Characters": Zhang
Guixing's Novels and Sinophone Literature's Cultural Imaginings and
Representational Strategies Part 3: The Global Chinese Diaspora 9. Tales
Out of School: Campus Fiction from Taiwan 10. The Practice of Annotation
and Translation in Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen Mysteries 11. From
"Chinese Diaspora" to "Sinospore": Multispecies Chineseness and Transmemory
in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl 12. Xiaolu Guo's I Am China: On Copulas and
Copulation