Sinoglossia / edited by Andrea Bachner, Howard Chiang, and Yu-lin Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bachner, Andrea, editor.

Chiang, Howard, 1983- editor.

Lee, Yu-lin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong, China : Hong Kong University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Sinoglossia places the terms of embodiment, mediality, and translation at the center of analytical inquiry into Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Converging in the rubric of Sinoglossia, the chapters in this volume introduce a theory defined by cultural formations not overdetermined by Sinitic linguistic ties. The concept of Sinoglossia combines a heteroglossic and a heterotopian approach to the critical study of mediated discourses of China and Chineseness. From the history of physical examinations and queer subalternity to the cinematic inscription of Chineseness-as-landscape, and from Sinopop to the translational writings of Eileen Chang and Syaman Rapongan, this book argues for a flexible conceptualization of cultural objects, conditions, and contexts that draws attention to an array of polyphonic, multi-discursive, and multilingual articulations. In this new horizon of understanding, place or topos necessarily constitutes the possibility of friction and source of innovation.

Contents:

Introduction

part I. Corporeality

1. Inspecting Bodies, Crafting Subjects

2. Therapeutic Humanism in Hou Chun-Ming's Art

3. What Does an Open Body Say?

part II. Media

4. Landscape of Words

5. Sinopop

6. Chinese Writing, Heptapod B, and Martian Script

7. The Techne of Listening

part III. Translation

8. Eileen Chang at the Intersection of the Sinophone and the Anglophone

9. The Frontier of Sinophone Literature in Syaman Rapongan's Translational Writing

10. The Promise and Peril of Translation in the Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants

part IV. Conclusions: Theoretical Interventions

11. Sinophone States of Exception

12. The Inherent Contradiction of Sinoglossia

13. Kingston beyond Orientalism

14. Demolishing Script

15. Sinotopias.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

988-8805-59-2

OCLC:

1409618030