Global Chinese Literature

Critical Essays, Student Edition
Student Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-16905-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Chinese Overseas

This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses. Each of the ten essays deals with a particular conceptual problem or case study of different locations and modalities of Chinese-language, or Sinophone, production. From language to music, literature to popular culture, minority politics to internal diaspora, theories of sinography to China's quest for the Nobel Prize, this volume brings together leading and new voices in the study of Chinese literature from a variety of comparative and intranational perspectives. Contributors include scholars from Asia, North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. It is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in contemporary China and the global politics of Sinophone literature.

``This thought-provoking anthology has opened up many fascinating questions. Although its intended readership is scholars from literary studies, anyone who is interested in the interplay between language, ethnicity and identity should not miss it.``
Zhengdao Ye, The Australian National University

Zielgruppe

All those interested national literatures in East Asia, contemporary Chinese culture, diaspora, modernity, translation, and history of standardized languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsu, Jing

Wang, David Der-Wei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Global Chinese Literature
Jing Tsu and David Der-wei Wang
2. Minor Sinophone Literature: Diasporic Modernity’s Incomplete Journey
Kim Chew Ng
3. Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Production
Shu-mei Shih
4. Global Vision and Locatedness: World Literature in Chinese/by Chinese (Shijie huawen/huaren wenxue) from a Chinese Americanist Perspective
Sau-ling C. Wong
5. (Re)mapping Sinophone Literature
Kim Tong Tee
6. Sinophonics and the Nationalization of Chinese
Jing Tsu
7. Alai and the Linguistic Politics of Internal Diaspora
Carlos Rojas
8. Thinking with Food, Writing off Center: Notes on Two Hong Kong Authors
Rey Chow
9. In Search of a Genuine Chinese Sound: Jiang Wenye and Modern Chinese Music
David Der-wei Wang
10. Reinventing Chinese Writing: Zhang Guixing’s Sinographic Translations
Andrea Bachner
11. Chinese Literature in the Global Canon: The Quest for Recognition
Julia Lovell
12. Commentary: On the “Sainifeng” as a Global Literature
Eric Hayot

Über Autor(innen)

Jing Tsu, Ph.D. (Harvard University), is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Yale University. She is author of Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2010).

David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. He is author, editor, and co-editor of numerous publications in English and Chinese, including The Monster That is History: Violence, History, and Fictional Writing in 20th Century China (University of California Press, 2004); Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History (Duke University Press, 2007).