Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature.
Title:
Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature.
Author:
Laughlin, C.
ISBN:
9781403981332
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Contested Modernities -- Part I Rewriting Literary History -- 1 The Rhetorics of Modernity and the Logics of the Fetish -- 2 Woman and Her Affinity to Literature: Defining Women Writers' Roles in China's Cultural Modernity -- 3 Desire and Disease: Bai Wei and the Literary Left of the 1930s -- 4 What's "Chinese" in Chinese Diasporic Literature? -- 5 Toward a Theory of Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng Literature -- Part II The Quotidian Apocalypse -- 6 Modernity and Apocalypse in Chinese Novels from the End of the Twentieth Century -- 7 A Cruel World: Boundary-Crossing and Exile in The Great Going Abroad -- 8 Stay or Go: Li Guoxiu's Ambiguous Answer to the Taiwan Question -- 9 Tales of a Porous City: Public Residences and Private Streets in Taipei Films -- Part III The Moral Subject under Global Capitalism -- 10 Reproducing the Self: Consumption, Imaginary, and Identity in Chinese Women's Autobiographical Practice in the 1990s -- 11 Urban Ethics: Modernity and the Morality of Everyday Life -- 12 Capitalist and Enlightenment Values in Chinese Fiction of the 1990s: The Case of Yu Hua's Blood Merchant -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Contested Modernities brings together the work of twelve scholars of modern Chinese culture which, from a multiplicity of perspectives, interrogates the myth of modern Chinese culture as a belated or diluted form of the Western experience of modernity. Articles on fiction, drama, film and literary historiography throughout the twentieth century are organized into sections on Rewriting Literary History, The Quotidian Apocalypse and The Moral Subject under Global Capitalism. From the intersecting angles of historical retrospect, shifting historical consciousness, and moral imagination, all show how Chinese cultural producers continue to carve out their own modernisms, neither essentially Chinese nor simply Western.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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