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Politics, ideology, and literary discourse in modern China : theorectical interventions and cultural critique / Liu Kang, and Xiaobing Tang, editors ; foreword by Fredric Jameson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Politics and literature--China.
- Politics and literature.
- Communism and literature--China.
- Communism and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to the experience of the modern. With chapters by writers, scholars, and critics from mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States, this volume explores the complexity of representing modernity within the Chinese context. Addressing the problem of finding a proper language for
- Contents:
- Subjectivity, Marxism and cultural theory in China / Liu Kang
- Subjectivity of literature revisited / Liu Zaifu
- Split China, or, the historical/imaginary : toward a theory of the displacement of subjectivity at the margins of modernity / Ching-kiu Stephen Chan
- Narratives of modern selfhood : first-person fiction in May Fourth literature / Lydia H. Liu
- Female subjectivity and gender relations : the early stories of Lu Yin and Bing Xin / Wendy Larson
- Ideologies of realism in modern China : the hard imperatives of imported theory / Theodore Huters
- Lu Xun, Shen Congwen and decapitation / David D.W. Wang
- Red sorghum : limits of transgression / Tonglin Lu
- Narrative, ideology, subjectivity : defining a subversive discourse in Chinese reportage / Yingjin Zhang
- Anxiety of portraiture : quest for/questioning ancestral icons in post-Mao China / Yuejin Wang
- Resisting writing / Li Tuo
- Function of new theory : what does it mean to talk about postmodernism in China? / Xiaobing Tang.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-90427-2
- 9786612904271
- 0-8223-8184-2
- OCLC:
- 850214539
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