03127nam 2200613Ia 450 991048755030332120200520144314.01-4399-0760-91-280-12817-89786613532053(CKB)2670000000175486(EBL)887890(OCoLC)786181812(SSID)ssj0000601847(PQKBManifestationID)11386974(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601847(PQKBWorkID)10568849(PQKB)10571910(MiAaPQ)EBC887890(MdBmJHUP)muse16255(EXLCZ)99267000000017548620111102d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTiananmen fictions outside the Square the Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture /Belinda KongPhiladelphia Temple University Press20121 online resource (290 p.)Asian American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4399-0759-5 1-4399-0758-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : Tiananmen in diaspora and in fiction -- The existentialist square: Gao Xingjian's Taowang -- pt. 1. The prize and the polis -- pt. 2. Fleeing Tiananmen -- The aporetic square: Ha Jin's The crazed -- pt. 1. The scholar and the student -- pt. 2. -- The lost square -- The globalized square: Annie Wang's Lili -- pt. 1. Female hooligans and global capital -- pt. 2. Equivocal transnationalism -- The biopolitical square: Ma Jian's Beijing coma -- pt. 1. Tiananmen cannibals and biopower -- pt. 2. Reclaiming student life and after -- Conclusion: the square comes full circle.An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers-Gao Xingjian, HAsian American history and culture.Chinese literatureForeign countriesHistory and criticismAuthors, ChineseForeign countriesChinese diaspora in literatureChinaHistoryTiananmen Square Incident, 1989Chinese literatureHistory and criticism.Authors, ChineseChinese diaspora in literature.895.1/3009Kong Belinda1976-1241539MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910487550303321Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square2880103UNINA