Malaysian Crossings - Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that Mahua authors' grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for-rather than a barrier to-aesthetic inventiveness.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization, Characters, and Translation
Introduction: Southern Crossings: The Covert Globality of Mahua Literature
1. Doubly Local: Lin Cantian and the Contrapuntal Genesis of Mahua Novelistic Fiction
2. Channeling Exemplarity: Han Suyin’s Bifocal Writing Practice in Malaya
3. Cosmopolitan Visions of Drift: Wang Anyi and the Relay of Diasporic Literary Imagination
4. Off-Center Articulations: Li Yongping’s Transregional Literary Production
Coda: Always the Internal Other: Mahua Literature and the Recognition of Alterity
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Cheow Thia Chan is assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore.

Summary

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that Mahua authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness.

Product details

• Authors: Cheow Thia Chan, Chan Cheow Thia
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780231203395
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20339-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Global Chinese Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Malaysia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Chinese, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary Criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000