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Literary Remains : Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn /
Lu Xun (1881-1936), arguably twentieth-century China's greatest writer, is commonly cast in the mold of a radical iconoclast who vehemently rejected traditional culture. The contradictions and ambivalence so central to his writings, however, are often overlooked. Challenging conventional depict...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2013]
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| 505 | 0 | |a The limits of subjectivity : death, trauma, and the refusal to mourn -- In the name of the father, or the authority of the preface : filiality and the origins of writing -- Vigil before the shrine of the dead : biographers, subjects, and the failures of transmission -- Death by applause : eulogizing women -- The abandoned lover : romance in an age of mechanical reproductions -- The elusion of paradise : wanderers without a home -- Mocking the sages : "gathering vetch" -- A world devoid of enchantment : "mending heaven" and "resurrecting the dead." | |
| 520 | |a Lu Xun (1881-1936), arguably twentieth-century China's greatest writer, is commonly cast in the mold of a radical iconoclast who vehemently rejected traditional culture. The contradictions and ambivalence so central to his writings, however, are often overlooked. Challenging conventional depictions, this book explores Lu Xun's disenchantment with modernity and his transformative engagements with traditional literary conventions in his "modern" experimental works. Lurking behind the ambiguity at the heart of his writings are larger questions on the effects of cultural exchange, accommodation, and transformation that Lu Xun grappled with as a writer: How can a culture estranged from its vanishing traditions come to terms with its past? How can a culture, severed from its roots and alienated from the foreign conventions it appropriates, conceptualize its own present and future? The author shows how Lu Xun's own literary encounter with the modern involved a sustained engagement with the past. His creative writings - which imitate, adapt, and parody traditional literary conventions - represent and mirror the trauma of cultural disintegration, in content and in form. His contradictory, uncertain, and at times bizarrely incoherent narratives refuse to conform to conventional modes of meaning making or teleological notions of history, opening up imaginative possibilities for comprehending the past and present without necessarily reifying them. Behind Lu Xun's "refusal to mourn," that is, his insistence on keeping the past and the dead alive in writing, lies an ethical claim: to recover the redemptive meaning of loss. Like a solitary wanderer keeping vigil at the site of destruction, he sifts through the debris, composing epitaphs to mark both the presence and absence of that which has gone before and will soon come to pass. For in the rubble of what remains, he recovered precious gems of illumination through which to assess, critique, and transform the moment of the present. This book shows how Lu Xun's literary enterprise is driven by a "radical hope"--A hope that, in spite of the destruction he witnessed and the limits of representation, his writings, like the texts that inspired his own, might somehow capture glimmers of the past and the present, and illuminate a future yet to unfold | ||
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