Liu Zaifu: Selected Critical Essays

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44911-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 788 g

Liu Zaifu is a name that has already been ingrained within contemporary Chinese literary history. This landmark volume presents Anglophone readers with Lius profound reflections on Chinese literature and culture at different times. The essays collected here demonstrate Lius historical experience and trajectory as an exiled Chinese intellectual who persistently safeguards the individuality and the autonomy of literature, refusing to succumb to political manipulation.

Lius theory of literary subjectivity has opened ways for Chinese writers to thrive and innovate. His panoramic view not only unravels the intricate interplay between literature and politics but also firmly regards the transcendental value of literature as a significant ground to subvert revolutionary dogmatism and criticize Chinese modernity. Rather than drawing upon the existing paradigm, he reinvents his own unique theoretical conceptions in order to exile the borrowed gods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Zaifu

Weitere Mitwirkende

Choy, Howard Y. F.

Liu, Jianmei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: “Standing Alone atop the Mountain; Walking Freely under the Sea”

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Liu Jianmei and Howard Y. F. Choy

part 1: Literary History

1 Literary History as Paradox

Translated by Howard Y. F. Choy

2 The End of Modern Chinese Revolutionary Literature

Translated by Steven Day

3 From the Monologic Era to the Polyphonic Era

An Outline of Forty Years of Literary Development in Mainland China

Translated by Ke Wei and Torbjörn Lodén

part 2: Cultural Criticism and Literary Theory

4 Traditional Chinese Culture’s Designs on Humanity

Translated by Deirdre Sabina Knight

5 On the Stylistic Revolution of Literary Criticism in the 1980s

Translated by Ann Huss

6 Farewell to the Gods

Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory’s Fin-de-siècle Struggle

Translated by Steven Day

7 Literature Exiling the State

Translated by Torbjörn Lodén

8 The Dimensions of Modern Chinese Literature and Their Limitations

Translated by Eileen J. Cheng

part 3: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Writers

9 Lu Xun and Chinese/Foreign Culture

Translated by Alan Berkowitz and Haili Kong

10 Miracle and Tragedy in Modern Chinese Literature

In Honor of Lu Xun’s 120th Birthday

Translated by Lianying Shan

11 Eileen Chang’s Fiction and C. T. Hsia’s A History of Modern Chinese Fiction

Translated by Yunzhong Shu

12 Escape of the Mental Prisoner

In Honor of Gao Xingjian

Translated by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes

13 A Comparative Study of Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan

Translated by Jessica Yeung

Postcript: Translation, Quotation, and Expatriation

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Howard Y. F. Choy, Ph.D. (2004), Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the editor of Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and Body in Modern China (Brill, 2016) and the author of Remapping the Past: Fictions of History in Deng's China, 1979-1997 (Brill, 2008).

Liu Jianmei, Ph.D. (1998), Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature (Oxford UP, 2016), Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Hawaii UP, 2003).