04551nam 2200685 450 991046662970332120210429222155.01-5036-0593-010.1515/9781503605930(CKB)4100000004821708(MiAaPQ)EBC5401000(DE-B1597)563890(DE-B1597)9781503605930(Au-PeEL)EBL5401000(OCoLC)1178769654(EXLCZ)99410000000482170820180616d2018 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInscrutable belongings queer Asian North American fiction /Stephen Hong SohnStanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (335 pages)Asian America1-5036-0401-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : imagining queer Asian North American lives -- Tactical diversions : toward queer Asian North American formalisms -- Narrative endurance : queer Asian North American storytellers, survival plots and inscrutable belongings -- Inscrutable belongings in pathology : infectious genealogies in Alexander Chee's Edinburgh -- Inscrutable belongings in cinema : filmic lineages in Noël Alumit's Letters to Montgomery Clift -- Inscrutable belongings in hunting : interracial surrogacies in Nina Revoyr's Wingshooters -- Inscrutable belongings in bondage : degenerate descendants in Lydia Kwa's Pulse.Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North American storytellers, looking to texts including Russell Leong's "Camouflage," Lydia Kwa's Pulse, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Nina Revoyr's Wingshooters, and Noël Alumit's Letters to Montgomery Clift. Despite many antagonistic forces, these works' protagonists achieve a revolutionary form of narrative centrality through the defiant act of speaking out, recounting their "survival plots," and enduring to the very last page. These feats are made possible through their construction of alternative social structures Sohn calls "inscrutable belongings." Collectively, the texts that Sohn examines bring to mind foundational struggles for queer Asian North Americans (and other socially marginalized groups) and confront a broad range of issues, including interracial desire, the AIDS/HIV epidemic, transnational mobility, and postcolonial trauma. In these texts, Asian North American queer people are often excluded from normative family structures and must contend with multiple histories of oppression, erasure, and physical violence, involving homophobia, racism, and social death. Sohn's work makes clear that for such writers and their imagined communities, questions of survival, kinship, and narrative development are more than representational—they are directly tied to lived experience.Asian America.Gays' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismGays' writings, CanadianHistory and criticismAmerican fictionAsian American authorsHistory and criticismCanadian fictionAsian authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismCanadian fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismAsian Americans in literatureFamilies in literatureGays in literatureElectronic books.Gays' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Gays' writings, CanadianHistory and criticism.American fictionAsian American authorsHistory and criticism.Canadian fictionAsian authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Canadian fictionHistory and criticism.Asian Americans in literature.Families in literature.Gays in literature.813/.5409895Sohn Stephen Hong595979MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466629703321Inscrutable Belongings1756445UNINA04831nam 22005775 450 991052008580332120251113211718.09789811665189(electronic bk.)978981166517210.1007/978-981-16-6518-9(OCoLC)1396762724(MiFhGG)GVRL57P1(CKB)20443703100041(MiAaPQ)EBC6840070(MiFhGG)9789811665189(DE-He213)978-981-16-6518-9(EXLCZ)992044370310004120220103d2021 u| 0engurun|---uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Novel Approach to China What China Debaters Can Learn from Contemporary Chinese Novelists /by Gengsong Gao1st ed. 2021.Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (xxvii, 233 pages)Gale eBooksPrint version: Gao, Gengsong A Novel Approach to China Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2022 9789811665172 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1: Public Function and Literary Singularity: Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Debate and Literary Criticism -- Chapter 2: Han Shaogong: Revealing and Reworking Chinese Linguistic Background -- Chapter 3: Han Shaogong: Revealing and Reworking Chinese Linguistic Background -- Chapter 4: Chen Zhongshi: Disclosing a Local Everyday Confucian World -- Chapter 5: Towards a Dialogic Chinese Studies.Gengsong Gao is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Richmond, where he teaches Chinese language courses and courses concerning modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture. This book explores Chinese novelists’ distinctive contributions to the China debate in terms of the key issues of Chinese language, power dynamics and Confucian tradition. As China is rising, Chinese scholars and policymakers are debating heatedly over China’s past, present and future. Who are the major debaters? How do they analyze China’s problems and figure out solutions? What are the main achievements and weaknesses of the Chinese intellectual debate and discourse? Chinese novelists also get involved in the China debate. However, their voices are rarely heard. This book argues that, by dramatizing the diversities of ordinary social actors’ everyday languages, active discursive practices and enchanted local traditions, Chinese novelists do not merely illustrate the dominant liberal, the New Left and the New Confucian ideologies, but enrich the China debate and provide a “novel” approach to our understanding of modern China. “Gengsong Gao’s A Novel Approach to China is a highly original, multidimensional contribution to literary studies and Chinese thought, the kind of work that deserves widespread attention. First, he outlines and criticizes theoretical trends in postsocialist Chinese literary studies to show how these theories have blocked out the capacity of Chinese literary texts to articulate political and social issues in ways that the language of political argument has not. Second, he lays out the major positions of the political debates in post-Tiananmen China—liberals, New Confucians, New Left, Maoists, etc. Then he introduces the problematic of the social imaginary, the common background shared by all of a society’s discourses, to connectthe analysis of literature to the language politics. Gao’s discussion of three contemporary novels by Han Shaogong, Wang Xiaobo, and Chen Zhongshi shows how these texts employ linguistic strategies that break down the ideological grids of the debate, not in order to deconstruct them, but to provide the resources for their enrichment. Readers of this book will not only get a thorough treatment of the relationship of Chinese literary theory to the West but an innovative theoretical problematic that opens a new way for literature to contribute to public debates.” —Meili Steele, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina at Columbia. .Oriental literatureAsiaPolitics and governmentChinaHistoryAsian LiteratureAsian PoliticsHistory of ChinaOriental literature.AsiaPolitics and government.ChinaHistory.Asian Literature.Asian Politics.History of China.895.13009Gao Gengsong1074720MiFhGGMiFhGG9910520085803321A Novel Approach to China2581417UNINA