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The Modernity of Chinese Postmodern Literature is an unprecedented comparative study of postmodern Chinese literature and continental European modernism. This book deconstructs and reconstructs central works of post-1976 Chinese literature and the main texts of European modernism to uncover a striking conceptual similarity between these two literary corpuses. Scholars and postgraduate students in the humanities comprise this work's primary audience. However, all those interested in contemporary China will find in it an accessible key to decode China's present and past.
List of contents
List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments and Preface - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - PART I: The Twentieth Century: An Intellectual Portrait - The Downfall of Positivism - The Aesthetic of Modernity - The Bay of Postmodernism - PART II: Post-Ideology China - The Matrix of Chinese Identity - Post-Ideology Literature - Post-New Era - PART III: A Tale of Decadence - Structure of Feelings - Epilogue - Chinese Characters List - Index.
About the author
Alberto Castelli is Associate Professor of Literature at Hainan University, China. He holds various academic degrees, among them a master¿s in Latin American literature and a master¿s in Chinese philosophy. He obtained his PhD at La Sapienza University, Rome. In 2015 he was awarded a financial grant from the Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation and in 2019 a research grant from Hainan University. His research interests include comparative literature and particularly comparative studies of Chinese and Western (post)modern literatures. Castelli¿s publications include "The Disenchantment of History and the Tragic Consciousness of Chinese Postmodernity" in Comparative Literature and Culture 21.4 (2019).
Summary
The Modernity of Chinese Postmodern Literature deconstructs and reconstructs central works of post-1976 Chinese literature and the main texts of European modernism to uncover a striking conceptual similarity between these two literary corpuses.
