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Tiananmen fictions outside the square : the Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture / Belinda Kong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kong, Belinda, 1976-
- Series:
- Asian American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Authors, Chinese.
- Foreign countries.
- China--History--Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989.
- China.
- History.
- Authors, Chinese--Foreign countries.
- Chinese diaspora in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction : Tiananmen in diaspora and in fiction
- The existentialist square: Gao Xingjian's Taowang
- pt. 1. The prize and the polis
- pt. 2. Fleeing Tiananmen
- The aporetic square: Ha Jin's The crazed
- pt. 1. The scholar and the student
- pt. 2.
- The lost square
- The globalized square: Annie Wang's Lili
- pt. 1. Female hooligans and global capital
- pt. 2. Equivocal transnationalism
- The biopolitical square: Ma Jian's Beijing coma
- pt. 1. Tiananmen cannibals and biopower
- pt. 2. Reclaiming student life and after
- Conclusion: the square comes full circle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439907580
- 1439907587
- 9781439907597
- 1439907595
- 9781439907603
- 1439907609
- OCLC:
- 749855455
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