Ma Yuan : the Chinese avant-garde, metafiction, and post-postmodernism / Will Gatherer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gatherer, Will, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ma, Yuan, 1953---Criticism and interpretation.

Ma, Yuan.

Ma, Yuan, 1953-.

Post-postmodernism (Literature)--China.

Post-postmodernism (Literature).

Criticism and interpretation.

China.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 149 pages: illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

"Ma Yuan: The Chinese Avant-Garde, Metafiction, and Post-Postmodernism in the works of Ma Yuan provides the most comprehensive study to date on one of China's most influential contemporary authors, Ma Yuan. By engaging in close readings of narratologically complex works of metafiction, the author offers a reappraisal of the role Ma Yuan played within the rise of postmodern fiction within China and offers new interpretive possibilities for the Chinese Avant-Garde movement of the 1980s through demonstrating that rather than being predominantly 'formalist word games' or 'narrative traps', Ma Yuan's works of metafiction functioned as Foucauldian 'heterotopias' which allowed for the creation of distinctly Post-modern and Post-socialist 'possible worlds'. This book also analyses Ma Yuan's recent post-2000 output and in doing so explores the shifting dynamics of literary self-reflexivity and the 'Post-postmodern' within the contemporary context of 'Xi Jinping era modernity'. This book argues that Ma Yuan's recent works display a distinct movement towards 'metamodern' aesthetics alongside a rising anthropocenic awareness and eco-consciousness which offer key insights into the post-postmodern condition within a Chinese context"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Early Works

2. High (Altitude) Metafiction: Self-reflexivity and Polyvocality in Tibet

3. Later Works

4. Monsters and Demons

5. Entanglement and The Huang Tang Family

6. Guniangzhai

7. Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gatherer, Will, 1982- Ma Yuan

ISBN:

9781793609014

1793609012

9781793609038

1793609039

OCLC:

1263268380

Publisher Number:

99989317696