Metaphors of Illness in Chinese North American Literature : The Body Speaks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tang, Fang.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tang, Fang, 1986-.

Diseases in literature.

Metaphor.

Local Subjects:

Tang, Fang, 1986-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

An analysis of metaphors of illness in Chinese North American literature as an articulation of trauma, cultural identity and resistance in the diaspora.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Speaking Bodies: Madness, Reproduction, and Gendered Pathology

1 Beyond Oppression and Resistance: Madness as Intercultural Epistemology in Twentieth-Century Chinese American Literature

2 Fantasizing Maternal Infanticide: Negotiating Hybridity and Motherhood

3 Reproductive Failure: Infertility, Impotence, and Diasporic Masculinity

Part 2 Disciplined Bodies: Appetite, Memory, and Trauma

4 Disorderly Appetites: Anorexia and the Politics of Refusal

5 Enduring Aftershocks : Insomnia, Trauma, and the Journey of Recovery

6 Forgetting to Remember: Amnesia, Memory, and Diasporic Survival

Part 3 Contagious Bodies: Stigma, History, and Apocalypse

7 Leprosy as Metaphor and the Reconstruction of Historical Memory in Geling Yan's The Epidemic of Pear Blossoms

8 Capitalist Chrononormativity and Temporal Refusal in the Chinese American Dystopian Novel Severance

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

9781978765740

9798881891527

OCLC:

1609712424