Modern Chinese Fiction: Ten Lectures

Author: Wang De-wei
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This book focuses on fiction, exploring one aspect of modern Chinese literature: historical enchantment and literary memory. From "demystification" to "invocation," the book uses this argument to question the complex dialogue between modern Chinese history and literature, such as the formation of national myths, the reorganization of generic order and symbolic systems, the dialectics of "historical justice" and "poetic justice," the interaction between the collective and individual subjects, and more importantly, the narrative network formed by time, writing, desire, and memory. By excavating historical ruins and navigating memory labyrinths, we can lay out the visible and invisible insights into modernity and modernity, while also reserving (self)critical space for the construction or deconstruction of the next round of history and memory.