Histories of the Elusive Self
Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 356 g
ISBN: 978-1-349-47466-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the contributors Introduction: Writing and Reading Chinese Lives; Marjorie Dryburgh 1. Chinese Life Writing: Themes and Variations; Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey 2. Self-representation in the Dramas of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646); Alison Hardie 3. How to Write a Woman's Life Into and Out of History: Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and Biographical Study in Republican China; Harriet T. Zurndorfer 4. The Fugitive Self: Writing Zheng Xiaoxu, 1882-1938; Marjorie Dryburgh 5. Destabilising the Truths of Revolution: Strategies of Subversion in the Autobiographical Writing of Political Women in China; Nicola Spakowski 6. Zhang Xianliang: Recensions of the Self; Chloe Starr 7. Whose Life is it anyway? Disabled Life Stories in Post-reform China; Sarah Dauncey 8. A Look at the Margins: Autobiographical Writing in Tibetan in the People's Republic of China; Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy Bibliography Index
