Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture |
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| Author:
| Kong, Belinda |
| Series title: | Asian American History and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-280-12817-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Publisher: | Temple University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $86.50 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.