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Ideology, power, text : self-representation and the peasant "other" in modern Chinese literature /

"The division between the scholar-gentry class and the "people" was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feuerwerker, Yi-tsi Mei, 1928-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The division between the scholar-gentry class and the "people" was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectual self and the peasant "other" a central concern of literature. The author argues that, in the process, they created the "peasantry," the downtrodden rural masses represented as proper objects of political action and shifting ideological agendas."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout this transition, language or discourse has been not only a weapon of struggle but the center of controversy and contention. Because of this primacy of language, the author's main approach is the close reading or, rather, re-reading of significant narrative fictions from four literary generations to demonstrate how historical, ideological, and cultural issues are absorbed, articulated, and debated within the text."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 321 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index.
ISBN:9780804765190
0804765197