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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784129003321

Titolo

Contested modernities in Chinese literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Charles A. Laughlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

1-281-76589-9

9786611765897

1-4039-8133-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LaughlinCharles A. <1964->

Disciplina

895.109005

Soggetti

Chinese literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Contested Modernities; Part I Rewriting Literary History; Part II The Quotidian Apocalypse; Part III The Moral Subject under Global Capitalism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a significant gathering of ideas on the subject of modern Chinese literature and culture of the past several years. The essays represent a wide spectrum of new approaches and new areas of subject matter that are changing the landscape of knowledge of modern and contemporary Chinese culture: women's literature, theatre (performance), film, graphic arts, popular literature, as well as literature of the Chinese diaspora. These phenomena and the approaches to them manifest interconnected trajectories for new scholarship in the field: the rewriting of literary history, the emergence of visual culture, and the quotidian apocalypse - the displacement of revolutionary romanticism and realism as central paradigms for cultural expression by the perspective of private, everyday experience.