Global Chinese literature : critical essays / [edited] by Jing Tsu and David Der-wei Wang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tsu, Jing.

Wang, Dewei.

Series:

Chinese overseas ; v. 3.

Chinese overseas: history, literature, and society, 1876-3847 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Chinese diaspora in literature.

Chinese in literature.

China--In literature.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Global Chinese Literature / Jing Tsu and David Der-wei Wang

Minor Sinophone Literature: Diasporic Modernity’s Incomplete Journey / Kim Chew Ng

Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Cultural Production / Shu-mei Shih

Global Vision and Locatedness: World Literature in Chinese/by Chinese (Shijie huawen/huaren wenxue 世界華文/举人文學) from a Chinese-Americanist Perspective / Sau-ling C. Wong

(Re)mapping Sinophone Literature / Tee Kim Tong

Sinophonics and the Nationalization of Chinese / Jing Tsu

Alai and the Linguistic Politics of Internal Diaspora / Carlos Rojas

Thinking with Food, Writing off Center: Notes on Two Hong Kong Authors / Rey Chow

In Search of a Genuine Chinese Sound: Jiang Wenye and Modern Chinese Music / David Der-wei Wang

Reinventing Chinese Writing: Zhang Guixing’s Sinographic Translations / Andrea Bachner

Chinese Literature in the Global Canon: The Quest for Recognition / Julia Lovell

Commentary: On the “Sainifeng 賽呢風” as a Global Literary Practice / Eric Hayot

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-03952-4

9786613039521

90-04-18691-3

90-04-18765-0

OCLC:

707925999

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004187658.i-234 DOI