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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Peasants in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Chinese fiction
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Peasants in literature
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Bauer
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Chinesisch
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Literatur
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Zelfbeeld.
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Boeren.
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Paysannerie -- Dans la littérature.
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Littérature chinoise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Représentations sociales -- Chine.
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Geschichte 1900-1998.
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Chinesisch.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780804765190 |
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0804765197 |
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