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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
Temple University Press
2012, 2012
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| Series: | Asian American history and culture
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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