Asian literary voices : from marginal to mainstream / edited by Philip F. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Philip F.

Series:

ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 12.

ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oriental literature--History and criticism.

Oriental literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, spanning all three mainstream cultures of China, Japan, and Korea, along with India. Ranging from Sanskrit poetry of over a thousand years ago to contemporary Chinese fiction, the contributors combine original fi ndings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader. A unifying concern of the contributors is to give voice to a wide range of literary and scholarly fi gures who were important in their time and rem

Contents:

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Korean and Japanese Portraits of Ideal Lovers; 2. Yamada Bimyo ̄'s "Musashino" and the Development of Early Meiji Historical Fiction; 3. From Atomized to Networked: Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Twentieth-century Chinese Narrative; 4. Sex for Sex's Sake?The "Genital Writings" of the Chinese Bad-Girl Writers; 5. In and Out of Home: Bing Xin Recontextualized; 6. From Enlightenment to Sinology: Early European Suggestions on How to Learn Chinese, 1770-1840

7. Chinese Avant-garde Theater: New Trends in Chinese Experimental Drama near the Close of the Twentieth Century8. Malraux's Hope: Allegory and the Voices of Silence; 9. Reception, Reappropriation, and Reinvention: Chinese Vernacular Fiction and Elite Women's Reading Practices in Late Choso?n Korea; 10. Some Women Writers and their Works in Classical Sanskrit Literature: A Reinterpretation; About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9789048508198

9048508193

OCLC:

680617336

Publisher Number:

10.5117/9789089640925

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access