Tiananmen fictions outside the square the Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture

An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly po...

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Main Author: Kong, Belinda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia Temple University Press 2012, 2012
Series:Asian American history and culture
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Introduction : Tiananmen in diaspora and in fiction -- The existentialist square: Gao Xingjian's Taowang -- pt. 1. The prize and the polis -- pt. 2. Fleeing Tiananmen -- The aporetic square: Ha Jin's The crazed -- pt. 1. The scholar and the student -- pt. 2. -- The lost square -- The globalized square: Annie Wang's Lili -- pt. 1. Female hooligans and global capital -- pt. 2. Equivocal transnationalism -- The biopolitical square: Ma Jian's Beijing coma -- pt. 1. Tiananmen cannibals and biopower -- pt. 2. Reclaiming student life and after -- Conclusion: the square comes full circle 
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520 |a An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers-Gao Xingjian, Ha Jin, Annie Wang, and Ma Jian-who have written and published about the massacre from abroad. Their outsider/distanced perspectives inform their work, and reveal how diaspora writers continually reimagine Tiananmen's relevance to the post-1989 world at large. Compelling us to think about how Chinese culture, identity, and politics are being defined in the diaspora, Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square candidly addresses issues of political exile, historical trauma, global capital, and state biopower