LEADER 03127nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910487550303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4399-0760-9 010 $a1-280-12817-8 010 $a9786613532053 035 $a(CKB)2670000000175486 035 $a(EBL)887890 035 $a(OCoLC)786181812 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000601847 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386974 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601847 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568849 035 $a(PQKB)10571910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC887890 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16255 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000175486 100 $a20111102d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTiananmen fictions outside the Square $ethe Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture /$fBelinda Kong 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 225 1 $aAsian American history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4399-0759-5 311 $a1-4399-0758-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aAn exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers-Gao Xingjian, H 410 0$aAsian American history and culture. 606 $aChinese literature$zForeign countries$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthors, Chinese$zForeign countries 606 $aChinese diaspora in literature 607 $aChina$xHistory$yTiananmen Square Incident, 1989 615 0$aChinese literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthors, Chinese 615 0$aChinese diaspora in literature. 676 $a895.1/3009 700 $aKong$b Belinda$f1976-$01241539 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910487550303321 996 $aTiananmen Fictions outside the Square$92880103 997 $aUNINA