Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction
Memories in Negotiation, Contradiction, and Translation
Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction
Memories in Negotiation, Contradiction, and Translation
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Description
Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China.
This book discusses the critical narrative of memory in overseas Chinese migrant fiction as an alternative account of histories. It reveals how writers, including Ken Liu, Yiyun Li and Geling Yan among others build the multiple facets of memory and explore the traces and significances of trauma through fiction. The book identifies a tension in dialogues between the writers' memory construction and public discourses, social powers, and transcultural experiences. The counterforces in self-reflexive memory writing are thus unearthed between collective and individual, public and private, as well as global and local.
Table of Contents
Conceptualizing Memory
Contemporary Migrancy
2. Collective Memory in Negotiation
Reconstructing Collective Memory in Adaptation: The Novel and the Film Youth
Hero Myth: Memory from Literature and Public Discourse
3. Marginal Memory in Contradiction
Daughter of the River: The Illegitimate and the Excluded
Gender Myth and Disciplined Sexuality in White Snake
4. Transcultural Memory: Theories and Texts
Reframing Transcultural Memory
A Transborder View: Reading Chinese Migrant Novels
5. Memory in Global Movement and Translation
Memory of War and War of Memory: Ethics in Global Memory and Its Narrative
Translating Memory: Language as Problems and Solutions
Conclusion
References
Product details
| Published | Jan 21 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 216 |
| ISBN | 9781350436466 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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