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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
Chinese diaspora in literature. --- Authors, Chinese --- Chinese literature --- History and criticism. --- China --- History --- Chinese authors
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In this original and interdisciplinary work, Jing Tsu advances the notion of “literary governance” as a way of understanding literary dynamics and production on multiple scales: local, national, global. “Literary governance,” like political governance, is an exercise of power, but in a “softer” way - it begins with language, rather than governments. In a globalizing world characterized by many diasporas competing for recognition, the global Chinese community has increasingly come to feel the necessity of a “national language,” standardized and privileging its native speakers. As the national language gains power within the diasporic community, members of the diaspora become aware of themselves as a community. Eventually, they move from the internal state of awakened identity to being recognized as a community, and finally exercising power as a community. But this hegemony of the “national language” is constantly being challenged by different, nonstandard language uses, including various Chinese dialects, multiple registers, contested alphabet usage, and Chinese men and women who write in foreign languages. “Literary governance” reflects both the consensus-building power and the inherent divisiveness of these debates about language and is useful as a comparative model for thinking about not only Sinophone, Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanophone literatures, but also any literary field that is currently expanding beyond the national.
Chinese literature --- Chinese diaspora in literature. --- Chinese in literature. --- History and criticism. --- China --- In literature. --- Chinese diaspora in literature --- Chinese in literature --- S15/0200 --- S16/0170 --- History and criticism --- China: Language--General works --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature
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This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses. Each of the ten essays deals with a particular conceptual problem or case study of different locations and modalities of Chinese-language, or Sinophone, production. From language to music, literature to popular culture, minority politics to internal diaspora, theories of sinography to China's quest for the Nobel Prize, this volume brings together leading and new voices in the study of Chinese literature from a variety of comparative and intranational perspectives. Contributors include scholars from Asia, North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. It is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in contemporary China and the global politics of Sinophone literature. ``This thought-provoking anthology has opened up many fascinating questions. Although its intended readership is scholars from literary studies, anyone who is interested in the interplay between language, ethnicity and identity should not miss it.`` Zhengdao Ye, The Australian National University
Chinese literature --- Chinese diaspora in literature --- Chinese in literature. --- Littérature chinoise --- Chinois --- Chinois dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- China --- Chine dans la littérature --- In literature. --- China -- In literature. --- Chinese diaspora in literature. --- Chinese literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism. --- Chinese in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- East Asian Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism. --- Littérature chinoise --- Chinois dans la littérature --- Chine dans la littérature
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In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their “homelands” in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions interact with space and place, as well as how theories of affect change our thinking of diaspora. Questions of borders and border-crossing, not to mention the public and private spheres, in diaspora literature and film raise further questions about mapping and spatial representation and the affective and geographical significance of the push-and-pull movement in diasporic communities. The unique experience is represented differently by different authors across texts and media. In an age of globalization, in “the Chinese Century,” the spatial representation and cultural experiences of mobility, displacement, settlement, and hybridity become all the more urgent. The essays in this volume respond to this urgency, and they help to frame the study of Chinese diaspora and culture today.
Chinese diaspora in literature. --- Oriental literature. --- Literature. --- Literature --- Space. --- Culture. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Emigration and immigration --- Asian Literature. --- World Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Space and Place in Culture. --- Diaspora Studies. --- Sociology of Migration. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Metaphysics --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Asian literature --- Social aspects --- Theory
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This book examines haunting in terms of trauma, languaging, and the supernatural in works by Chinese Australian writers born in Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. It goes beyond the conventional focus on identity issues in the analysis of diasporic writing, considering how the memory of past trauma is triggered by abusive systems of power in the present. The author unpacks how trauma also brings past violence to haunt the present. This book considers how different Chinese diasporic communities present a dynamic and multiple state through partial erasure between different Chinese subcultures and other cultures. Showing the supernatural as a social and cultural product, this book elucidates how haunting as the supernatural refers to the coexistence of, and the competition between, different cultures and powers. It takes a wide-ranging view of different diasporic communities under the banner ‘Chinese’, a term that refers not only to Chinese nationals in terms of citizenship, but also to the Chinese diaspora in terms of ancestry, and Chinese culture more generally. In analysing haunting in texts, the author positions Chinese culture as in a constant state of flux. It is relevant to literary scholars and students with interests in Australian literature, Chinese and Southeast Asian migration writing, and those with an interest in the Gothic and postcolonial traditions.
Chinese diaspora in literature. --- Chinese literature --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Oriental literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Goth culture (Subculture). --- Culture. --- Australasia. --- Asian Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Diaspora Studies. --- Gothic Studies. --- Australasian Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Gothic culture (Subculture) --- Subculture --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Asian literature --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Australian literature --- Supernatural in literature. --- Chinese authors
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