Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square - The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture

Informationen zum Autor Belinda Kong is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English at Bowdoin College. Klappentext How the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre haunts the work of writers in the Chinese diaspora Zusammenfassung How the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre haunts the work of writers in the Chinese diaspora Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Tiananmen in Diaspora and in Fiction; The Existentialist Square: Gao Xingjian's Taowang; Part 1 The Prize and the Polis; Part 2 Fleeing Tiananmen; II The Aporetic Square: Ha Jin's The Crazed; Part 1 The Scholar and the Student; Part 2 The Lost Square; III The Globalized Square: Annie Wang's Lili; Part 1 Female Hooligans and Global Capital; Part 2 Equivocal Transnationalism; IV The Biopolitical Square: Ma Jian's Beijing Coma; Part 1 Tiananmen Cannibals and Biopower; Part 2 Reclaiming Student Life and After; Conclusion The Square Comes Full Circle; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Belinda Kong
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2011
• EAN: 9781439907580
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0758-0
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Asian American History & Cultu; Asian American History & Cultu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Chinesisch, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren