Tiananmen fictions outside the square the Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture Kong, Belinda 1976- creator JSTOR (Organization) text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. pau Philadelphia Temple University Press 2012 monographic eng remote 1 online resource An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers-Gao Xingjian, Ha Jin, Annie Wang, and Ma Jian-who have written and published about the massacre from abroad. Their outsider/distanced perspectives inform their work, and reveal how diaspora writers continually reimagine Tiananmen's relevance to the post-1989 world at large. Compelling us to think about how Chinese culture, identity, and politics are being defined in the diaspora, Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square candidly addresses issues of political exile, historical trauma, global capital, and state biopower. Introduction : Tiananmen in diaspora and in fiction -- The existentialist square: Gao Xingjian's Taowang -- pt. 1. The prize and the polis -- pt. 2. Fleeing Tiananmen -- The aporetic square: Ha Jin's The crazed -- pt. 1. The scholar and the student -- pt. 2. -- The lost square -- The globalized square: Annie Wang's Lili -- pt. 1. Female hooligans and global capital -- pt. 2. Equivocal transnationalism -- The biopolitical square: Ma Jian's Beijing coma -- pt. 1. Tiananmen cannibals and biopower -- pt. 2. Reclaiming student life and after -- Conclusion: the square comes full circle. Belinda Kong. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-cc--- Chinese literature Foreign countries History and criticism China History Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 Authors, Chinese Foreign countries Chinese diaspora in literature Littérature chinoise Pays étrangers Histoire et critique Chine Histoire 1989 (Massacre de la place Tian'anmen) Écrivains chinois Pays étrangers LITERARY CRITICISM Asian General LITERARY CRITICISM American Asian American Chinese diaspora in literature China Tiananmen Square Incident (China : 1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01355149 1989 fast PL3033 .K66 2012eb 895.1/3009 Tiananmen fictions outside the square Kong, Belinda, 1976- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011043063 (OCoLC)749855455 Asian American history and culture 9781439907603 1439907609 9781439907580 1439907587 9781439907597 1439907595 353205 MIL 22573/ctt14006kg JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt14bt6sg N$T 120419 20230103223237.0 in00004634524 eng