Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square : The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture
Belinda. Kong
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Philadelphia : : Temple University Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (290 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Tiananmen in Diaspora and in Fiction; 1. The Existentialist Square: Gao Xingjian's Taowang; Part I. The Prize and the Polis; Part II. Fleeing Tiananmen; 2. The Aporetic Square: Ha Jin's The Crazed; Part I. The Scholar and the Student; Part II. The Lost Square; 3. The Globalized Square: Annie Wang's Lili; Part I. Female Hooligans and Global Capital; Part II. Equivocal Transnationalism; 4. The Biopolitical Square: Ma Jian's Beijing Coma; Part I. Tiananmen Cannibals and Biopower; Part II. Reclaiming Student Life and After. - Conclusion: The Square Comes Full CircleNotes; Bibliography; Index. - An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers-Gao Xingjian, H
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| Emner | Gao, Xingjian , 1940- : (NO-TrBIB)90340794
Jin, Ha , 1956- : (NO-TrBIB)1091675 Ma, Jian , 1953- : (NO-TrBIB)10072009 Wang, Rui , 1972- : (NO-TrBIB)13034560 Vis mer... Authors, Chinese - Foreign countries
Chinese literature - History and criticism - Foreign countries China - History - Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989. Chinese diaspora in literature. Chinese fiction. Chinese literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism. Diaspora East Asian Languages & Literatures Eksilforfattere Forfattere Kinesisk litteratur Languages & Literatures Litteraturkritikk Tiananmenmassakren |
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| Dewey | 895.1/3009 . - 895.109
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| ISBN | 9781439907580. - 9781439907597
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