Literary Criticism : Asian

This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the 20th century. It has three goals: to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; to depict the enunciative endeavors, ranging from ideological treatises to avant-garde experiments, that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics; and to observe the historical factors that enacted the interplay of literary (post)modernities across Chinese communities in the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas. more...

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Bringing to light the enduring legacy of a great Japanese author who has contributed to an unmasking of the unsustainability of talk of an 'East-West' divide, this volume will be of interest to Japanese literature students. more...

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Winner of the Nobel Prize, Naipaul has traveled throughout the world, looking at its varied cultures and seeking out others' stories, recording and transforming them. His engagement with postcolonial cultures informs his novels, such as Guerrillas and A Bend in the River . However, it is his documentaries (such as Among the Believers and Beyond Belief ) and his works that combine actual and fictional histories and memories ( Finding the Center, The Enigma of Arrival , and A Way in the World ) that best exhibit a growing awareness of the complexities of cultural difference and the incompleteness and uncertainty of understanding 'strangers'. more...

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