Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010 - Histories of the Elusive Self

"This innovative collection explores life stories produced in China between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. These essays draw on biographical and autobiographical narratives of men and women, paragons and pariahs, taken from official histories, personal diaries, plays, fiction and blogs, and use perspectives taken from life writing theory to illuminate that work. Whereas many earlier studies have emphasised the social rules of life writing in China, and suggested that lives and selves were often obscured by the weight of convention, the work in this volume shows that the rules were often actively evaded or creatively exploited by biographers and autobiographers, and suggest that a critical understanding of those evasions and exploitations canbetter reveal lives that were lived and written both within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game. "--

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• Authors: Sarah Dauncey, Marjori Dryburgh, Marjorie Dryburgh, Marjorie Dauncey Dryburgh
• Assisted by: S. Dauncey (Editor), Sarah Dauncey (Editor), M. Dryburgh (Editor), Marjorie Dryburgh (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9781137368560
• ISBN: 978-1-137-36856-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Asien, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Oriental literature, Asian Literature