Rebel men : masculinity and attitude in postsocialist chinese literature / Pamela Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Pamela Anne, author.

Series:

Transnational Asian Masculinities

Transnational Asian masculinities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural 'attitude'. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, showing how male writers, as they critique the outcomes of decades of market reform, also ask the same question: how best to be a man in the new postsocialist order?In this first full-length discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature, Pamela Hunt offers a detailed analysis of four contemporary authors in particular: Zhu Wen, Feng Tang, Xu Zechen, and Han Han. In a series of insightful readings, she explores how all four writers show the same preoccupation with the figure of the man on the edges of society. Drawing on longstanding Chinese and global models of maverick and marginal masculinity, and responding to a desire to retain a measure of masculine authority, their characters all engage in forms of transgression that still rely heavily on heteronormative and patriarchal values. Rebel Men argues that masculinity, so often overlooked in literary analysis of contemporary China, continues to be renegotiated, debated, and agonized over, and is ultimately reconstructed as more powerful than before.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Boring, Useless: Masculinity and Crisis in Zhu Wen’s Fiction

3. The Dense Scent of Hormones: Phallic Creativity in Feng Tang’s Beijing Trilogy

4. Floating Men: Xu Zechen’s Migrants

5. The Right Road: The Han Han Phenomenon

6. Conclusion: Rebel Men

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789888754779

9888754777

OCLC:

1334659909