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Author Feuerwerker, Yi-tsi Mei, 1928-

Title Ideology, power, text : self-representation and the peasant "other" in modern Chinese literature / Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 321 pages)
Contents Introduction: A Literature "Out of the Ruins"? 1. From Tradition to Modernity: Intellectual and Peasant in Transition 2. Language and Textuality: Toward an Analytical Methodology 3. Lu Xun and the Crisis of the Writing Self 4. Zhao Shuli: The "Making" of a Model Peasant Writer 5. Reassessing the Past in the "New Era": Gao Xiaosheng 6. The Post Modern "Search for Roots" in Han Shaogong, Mo Yan, and Wang Anyi Epilogue or, What Next?
Summary "The division between the scholar-gentry class and the "people" was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectual self and the peasant "other" a central concern of literature. The author argues that, in the process, they created the "peasantry," the downtrodden rural masses represented as proper objects of political action and shifting ideological agendas."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout this transition, language or discourse has been not only a weapon of struggle but the center of controversy and contention. Because of this primacy of language, the author's main approach is the close reading or, rather, re-reading of significant narrative fictions from four literary generations to demonstrate how historical, ideological, and cultural issues are absorbed, articulated, and debated within the text."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index
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Subject Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Peasants in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Chinese fiction
Peasants in literature
Bauer
Chinesisch
Literatur
Zelfbeeld.
Boeren.
Paysannerie -- Dans la littérature.
Littérature chinoise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Représentations sociales -- Chine.
Geschichte 1900-1998.
Chinesisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804765190
0804765197