Brushing history against the grain : reading the Chinese new historical fiction (1986-1999) /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Language Notes: | English with some Chinese. |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The subordination of yanyi ; Canonizing revolution ; The new historical fiction
- Towards a delineation. Alternative histories ; Historiographic metafictions
- The tyranny of time. The birth of a temporal logic ; The Enlightenment legacy in retrospection ; Modernity and its discontents
- The proliferation of hetertopias. Mapping the geographies of the NHF ; The spatialization of time
- Writing decadence as allegory. Chinese decadence revisited ; Allegorizing historical decadence ; A rhetoric of sickness
- Constructing a "clean spirit". Writing in the Musilm way ; Aestheicizing pessimism and heterodoxy ; Journey to conversion
- Writing the peripheral into dictionary. The spatial form ; Fragments ; Rewriting history ; The power of words ; Dilemma
- History, fiction, and metafiction. Sexing Chinese history ; Living in totalitarian terror ; Intertextuality, memory and amnesia
- Conclusion : straddling traditionality and postmodernity.