Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse : Time, Space, Bodies, and Things.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaguścik, Justyna, author.

Contributor:

Krenz, Joanna.

Riemenschnitter, Andrea.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese poetry.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The 1919 May Fourth movement was the breeding ground for experiments by authors inspired by new world literary trends.Under Mao Zedong, folk songs accompanied political campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward.Misty Poetry of the 1980s contributed to the humanistic discourse of the post-Mao reform era.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Treading a Tightrope: Chinese Poetry in the Modern World

Part I: Multiple Realities

Chapter 1: The Death of Transnational Time: Locality, Reader Response, and the Strange Loop

Chapter 2: Redefining Family Women: The Ecofeminist Poetics of Shu Ting and Wang Xiaoni

Chapter 3: "Green mountains, green history, who will bear witness?" A Woman's Montage: Zhai Yongming's Following Huang Gongwang Through the Fuchun Mountains

Chapter 4: Deep Lyricism: Yu Jian's "On the Ancient Road of Hubei's Xishui County: A Detour"

Chapter 5: From a Poetry Popsicle to a Polymathic Herstorian: Xiao Bing's Alternative Worlds Through the Lens of Critical Code Studies

Part II: Formal Crossovers

Chapter 6: Lu Xun and Kuriyagawa Hakuson: Reading "Dead Fire" and "After Death"

Chapter 7: Ma Junwu's Reinvented Lyricism: Revolutionary Landscape, Romanticism, Science Fiction, and Darwinian Geology

Chapter 8: To "World Poetry" and Back: Xutang's Classicist Lyricism and the Ethnic Digital Bookshelf

Chapter 9: Nativism Revisited: Paradoxes in Modern Poetry in Taiwan

Chapter 10: Processing Strangers as Vital Jouissance in Hsia Yü's First Person

Part III: Liquid Boundaries

Chapter 11: "I Sing of Flesh": The Rhythm of Mu Dan's Self-translation

Chapter 12: Dark Tourism: Leung Ping-kwan's Eastern European Journeys in 1990 and 1991

Chapter 13: Hong Kong's Leftist Poetry: Sinophone and/or Huawen?

Chapter 14: Poetry and Subalternity: What Are We Looking for?

Chapter 15: Wu Xia's Poetics of Affect

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-078505-0

1-003-69906-5

1-04-078932-3

90-485-5998-7

9781003699064

OCLC:

1499965756