Contemporary Chinese Literature - From the Cultural Revolution to the Future

Zusatztext 'Taking a close look at Chinese literature in the post Cultural Revolution period as well as the era of economic takeoff! Huang deploys a very ingenious and provocative trope! that of the orphan pairing up with the bastard. Highlighting the self-contradictory nature and crisis-ridden search in writers such as Duo Duo! Wang Shuo! Zhang Chengzhi! and Wang Xiaobo! Huang's work is a comprehensive study of culturally orphaned and politically rebellious generations in search of their voice and identity.' - Ban Wang! Stanford University Informationen zum Autor YIBING HUANG is Associate Professor of Chinese at Connecticut College, USA. Klappentext This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and 'cultural bastards' - Duoduo, an underground 'misty' poet; Wang Shuo, a 'hooligan' writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old 'Red Guard' and new 'cultural heretic'; and Wang Xiaobo, a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history. Zusammenfassung This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and 'cultural bastards' - Duoduo! an underground 'misty' poet; Wang Shuo! a 'hooligan' writer; Zhang Chengzhi! an old 'Red Guard' and new 'cultural heretic'; and Wang Xiaobo! a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Rethinking the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution Duo Duo: An Impossible Farewell, or, Exile between Revolution and Modernism Wang Shuo: Playing for Thrills in the Era of Reform, or, A Genealogy of the Present Zhang Chengzhi: Striving for Alternative National Forms, or, Old Red Guard and New Cultural Heretic Wang Xiaobo: From "Golden Age" to "Silver Age," or, Writing Against the Gravity of History Revising a Double-Faced Chinese Modernity

Product details

• Authors: Y Huang, Y. Huang
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2008
• EAN: 9781349538409
• ISBN: 978-1-349-53840-9
• No. of pages: 229
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Cultural Studies, Poetry, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, World Literature, Culture—Study and teaching, Poetry and Poetics, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Oriental literature, Asian Literature