Title: Literary remains : death, trauma, and Lu Xun's refusal to mourn /
Authors: Cheng, Eileen, 1969-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Lu, Xun, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: Lu Xun (1881-1936), arguably twentieth-century China's greatest writer, is commonly cast in the mold of a radical iconoclast who vehemently rejected traditional culture. The contradictions and ambivalence so central to his writings, however, are often overlooked. Challenging conventional depictions, Eileen J. Cheng's innovative readings capture Lu Xun's disenchantment with modernity and his transformative engagements with traditional literary conventions in his "modern" experimental works.^
Contents: The owl -- History, or what remains in the present -- The limits of subjectivity : death, trauma, and the refusal to mourn -- The illegitimate preface -- (Un)faithful biographers -- Death by applause : eulogizing women -- The abandoned lover -- The journey home -- Mocking the sages -- DIsenchanted fables -- Remembrance, forgetting, and radical hope.