Lu Xun and world literature / edited by Xiaolu Ma and Carlos Rojas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ma, Xiaolu, Editor.

Rojas, Carlos, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lu, Xun, 1881-1936--Influence.

Lu, Xun.

Lu, Xun, 1881-1936--Criticism and interpretation.

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

Chinese literature.

Chinese literature--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages) : 9 illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Lu Xun and World Literature, Xiaolu Ma, Carlos Rojas, and other contributors examine various aspects of Lu Xun, who is known as the father of modern Chinese literature. Essays in this book focus on Lu Xun’s works in relation to the notions of world literature and processes of literary worlding. The contributors offer detailed analyses of Lu Xun’s own literary oeuvre and of foreign works that engage with his writings. This volume also focuses on many facets of the publication and dissemination of Lu Xun’s works’, from printing and binding to the discussions and debates that followed their release in China and abroad. This book not only makes an important contribution to the field of Lu Xun studies, but also proposes a reexamination of the category of world literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Table

Note on Sources

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction: Lu Xun, China, and the World

Part 1: Lu Xun and the World

1. Lu Xun, World Poetry, and Poetic Worlding: From Mara Poetry to Revolutionary Literature

2. The Young Lu Xun and Weltliteratur: The Making of Anthology of Short Stories from beyond the Border

3. Lu Xun’s Russian Intertexts and the Dialectics of Optimism and Pessimism

4. What Happens after a Text Leaves Home? Lu Xun, Ibsen, and Ichiyō

5. Guarded Pages, Borderless Books: Lu Xun and the Revolution of the Book in Modern China

Part 2: Lu Xun into the World

6. (Geo)politics of Aesthetics: Transculturation of Lu Xun in Korea

7. Belated Reception and Residual Influence: Lu Xun and Spain

8. Penitence, Mercy, and Conversion: Lu Xun as a Topos of World Literature

9. Ghostwriting the Subalterns: Rereading Ah Q through Wong Bik-wan’s Lielaozhuan

10. “Each of Them Is a Lu Xun”: Lu Xun’s Virtual Children in Southeast Asia

Part 3: Lu Xun and Worlding

11. Structure of Suspicion: Body, Time, and the Worlding of Nontranscendence in Lu Xun’s and Guo Moruo’s Fiction on Laozi

12. Beyond Oneself: Writing and Effacement in Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk

13. The Severe Style: Law, Irony, and the Absolute in Lu Xun

14. Lu Xun, Nonhumans, and the Critique of Domination

Postface

Appendix: Chinese Characters of Lu Xun’s Names, Pen Names, and Work Titles Cited in This Volume

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789888876600

988-8876-59-7

988-8876-60-0

OCLC:

1506885268