Transforming Monkey : Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic /

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"An analysis of historical, transcultural, and transmedia adaptation, Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic examines the ever-changing image of Sun Wukong (aka Monkey, or the Monkey King), in literature and popular culture both in China and the United States. A pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sun, Hongmei (Lecturer) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sun, Wukong.
Sun, Wukong > In literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Epic literature, Chinese.
Literature.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Identity (Psychology) in literature > History and criticism.
Epic literature, Chinese > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Who is Sun Wukong? The image of the Monkey King in journey to the west
  • The transmutable Monkey : between theatre and fiction in traditional China
  • From trickster to hero : national mythmaking in wartime and Maoist China
  • From fighter to lover : the postsocialist hero in the PRC and Hong Kong
  • Chronotope and orientalism: time travel between China and America
  • Of Monkey, human, and god: the performance of Asian American identity

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