Narrative in "Huilan"

Author: Huang Ziping
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: "The Series of Marginal Criticism" primarily collects literary critical writings and cultural research achievements of Chinese scholars studying overseas. The authors of the series are mostly well-known critics domestically who have studied abroad in the past two decades. Due to their identity, objects, and language, they conduct research on Chinese literature and culture in overseas academies, which basically belongs to "marginal disciplines." However, when they obtain degrees and become intellectuals overseas, they can possess marginality like true exiles. But for the authors of "The Series of Marginal Criticism," "marginal" is more like an unavoidable academic situation they face rather than a conscious pursuit. What "marginal" signifies is not a rigidly opposing spatial position to the center, but the critics' wandering and navigating between the gaps of the center. The marginal authors appropriate various theoretical strategies with mixed origins, adjust and organize their textual experiences, and respond to the historical contexts that confront them.