China's avantgarde fiction an anthology
Inhalt: Remembering Mr. Wu You ; Green Yellow ; Whistling / Ge Fei -- The Noon of Howling Wind ; 1986 ; This Story is for Willow / Yu Hua -- Flying Over Maple Village ; The Birth of the Water God ; The Brothers Shu / Su Tong -- The Hut on the Mountain / Can Xue -- The Big Drugstore / Bei Cun -- I am...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Durham u.a.
Duke Univ. Press
1998
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Inhalt: Remembering Mr. Wu You ; Green Yellow ; Whistling / Ge Fei -- The Noon of Howling Wind ; 1986 ; This Story is for Willow / Yu Hua -- Flying Over Maple Village ; The Birth of the Water God ; The Brothers Shu / Su Tong -- The Hut on the Mountain / Can Xue -- The Big Drugstore / Bei Cun -- I am a Young Drunkard / Sun Ganlu -- More ways than one to make a kite ; A wandering spirit / Ma Yuan. |
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| Beschreibung: | Publisher description: Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their willful apathy toward everything held sacred by the generation that witnessed the Cultural Revolution. Jing Wang has selected provocative examples of this new school of writing, which gained prominence in the late 1980s. Contradicting many long-cherished beliefs about Chinese writers—including the alleged tradition of writing as a political act against authoritarianism—these stories make a dramatic break from conventions of modern Chinese literature by demonstrating an irreverence toward history and culture and by celebrating the artificiality of storytelling. Enriched by the work of a distinguished group of translators, this collection presents an aesthetic experience that may have outraged many revolutionary-minded readers in China, but one that also occupies an important place in the canon of Chinese literature. China’s Avant-Garde Fiction brings together a group of exceptional writers (including Raise the Red Lantern author Su Tong) to the attention of an English-speaking audience. Translators: Eva Shan Chou, Michael S. Duke, Howard Goldblatt, Ronald R. Janssen, Andrew F. Jones, Denis C. Mair, Victor H. Mair, Caroline Mason, Beatrice Spade, Kristina M. Torgeson, Jian Zhang, Zhu Hong |
| Beschreibung: | 283 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0822321009 0822321165 |