The subject in crisis in contemporary Chinese literature /

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During the 1980s & 1990s the crippled agent who fails to realise the humanist autonomy envisioned by post-Mao theorists remained a common subject of Chinese literature. Rong Cai studies the work of five contemporary writers & assesses the reasons for the popularity of this subject.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cai, Rong, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Mo, Yan, > 1955- > Critique et interprétation.
Canxue, > 1953- > Critique et interprétation.
Han, Shaogong > Critique et interprétation.
Yü, Hua, > 1960- > Critique et interprétation.
Jia, Pingwa > Critique et interprétation.
1900-1999
Chinese literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Littérature chinoise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Chinese.
Chinese literature.
Literatur
Geschichte 1977-2000.
Chinesisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • In search of a new subject
  • The spoken subject: Han Shaogong's cripples
  • In the madding crowd: self and other in Can Xue's fiction
  • The post-Mao traveler on the new long march
  • Mirror of the self: the foreign other in Mo Yan's Large breasts and full hips
  • Appropriation and representation: the intellectual self in the early 1990s.

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