Reading China Against the Grain: Imagining Communities

ISBN-13: 9780367415495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

Carlos Rojas; Mei-Hwa Sung

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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’ŏl 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