Antipodean China : reflections on literary exchange / Nicholas Jose, Benjamin Madden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jose, Nicholas, 1952- author.

Madden, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian essays--21st century.

Australian essays.

Australian literature--History and criticism.

Australian literature.

China--In literature.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 pages)

Place of Publication:

Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

Antipodean China is a collection of essays based on a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. In the current climate, this collection presents what may be seen, in retrospect, as an idyllic moment of communication and trust. As the writers spoke about the places important to them, their influences and their work, resemblances emerged, and their different perspectives contributed to a sense of common understanding, about literature and about the role of the writer in society. This is seen particularly in the encounters between Tibetan author Alai and Indigenous author Alexis Wright, and the two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan and J.M. Coetzee.The collection, edited by Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden, features writing by important Chinese and Australian authors, including Brian Castro, Gail Jones, Julia Leigh, Yu Hua, Sheng Keyi, Xi Chuan and Zheng Xiaoqiong, and translators Eric Abrahamsen, Li Yao, Natascha Bruce and John Minford.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Reading Each Other: China and Australia

I: The Meaning of Place

Broken Sense of Place

Sovereignty of the Mind

'Like the Thunder'

Rewriting to Reclaim Ourselves

The Power of Story

On Region and Mobility

The Age of World Literature Has Not Really Arrived

On Carpentaria

II: Place and Placelessness

A River's Gifts

A Sense of Place

Foreign Concessions

Unmaking the Sandpaper Stair

The Stomach of Poetry

Migrant Work

Literature and the Local

Dark Things

III: The Translator's Task

Life with the Tao

'A Thousand Bits of Jade': Judith Gautier and Chinese Poetry

Literature and Translation

The Burden of the Translator: An Interview with Eric Abrahamsen

'A Bilingual Force Moving in Between': memories of a bilingual animal

Conceiving Otherness: 'Simon Leys' in China and Australia

IV: Writers on the Move

Between Colleagues and Friends: My Latin American Travels

The Four Dreams of Lu Xun

On Non-inclusiveness

Seminal Retention

Chinese Literary Feminisms

Preface to Crystal Wedding

Criticism Needs Soul

Authors and Tradition

Reality in Literature

V: The Nobel Prize in China

Coming from Tradition, Returning to Tradition

The Nobel Prize in China

The Nobel Prize in Literature and its Meaning

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Author biographies

Translator biographies.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-925818-65-9

OCLC:

1243351862