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->
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| Titolo: |
Tiananmen fictions outside the Square : the Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture / / Belinda Kong
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-4399-0760-9 |
| 1-280-12817-8 | |
| 9786613532053 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910487550303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Asian American history and culture.