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Tiananmen fictions outside the Square : the Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture / / Belinda Kong



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Autore: Kong Belinda <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Tiananmen fictions outside the Square : the Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture / / Belinda Kong Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
Disciplina: 895.1/3009
Soggetto topico: Chinese literature - Foreign countries - History and criticism
Authors, Chinese - Foreign countries
Chinese diaspora in literature
Soggetto geografico: China History Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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, H
Titolo autorizzato: Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4399-0760-9
1-280-12817-8
9786613532053
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910487550303321
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Serie: Asian American history and culture.