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Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction
Memories in Negotiation, Contradiction, and Translation
Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction
Memories in Negotiation, Contradiction, and Translation
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Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China.
Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary approaches the book casts new light on texts by writers from the Cultural Revolution generation, including Ken Liu, Yiyun Li and Geling Yan among others. Meng Xia demonstrates how these writers construct collective identity in the contexts of transnational experiences of migration and historical trauma. The book delves into the possibilities and problems of transposing memory across borders and engages with debates over the unspeakability and politicization of trauma across public and private lines.
Table of Contents
Conceptualizing Memory
Contemporary Migrancy
2. Collective Memory in Negotiation
Reconstructing Collective Memory in Adaptation: The Novel and the Film Youth
Hero Myth: Memory from Literature and Public Discourse
3. Marginal Memory in Contradiction
Daughter of the River: The Illegitimate and the Excluded
Gender Myth and Disciplined Sexuality in White Snake
4. Transcultural Memory: Theories and Texts
Reframing Transcultural Memory
A Transborder View: Reading Chinese Migrant Novels
5. Memory in Global Movement and Translation
Memory of War and War of Memory: Ethics in Global Memory and Its Narrative
Translating Memory: Language as Problems and Solutions
Conclusion
References
Product details
| Published | 12 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 216 |
| ISBN | 9781350436442 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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