Tiananmen fictions outside the square
Subtitle: the Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture
By: Belinda Kong
Series: Asian American history and culture
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781439907580; 9781439907597; 9781439907603
Subjects: Chinese literature; History and criticism; Chinese Authors; Chinese diaspora in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Tiananmen in diaspora and in fiction; title: The existentialist square: Gao Xingjian's Taowang; title: pt. 1. The prize and the polis; title: pt. 2. Fleeing Tiananmen; title: The aporetic square: Ha Jin's The crazed; title: pt. 1. The scholar and the student; title: pt. 2.; title: The lost square; title: The globalized square: Annie Wang's Lili; title: pt. 1. Female hooligans and global capital; title: pt. 2. Equivocal transnationalism; title: The biopolitical square: Ma Jian's Beijing coma; title: pt. 1. Tiananmen cannibals and biopower; title: pt. 2. Reclaiming student life and after; title: Conclusion: the square comes full circle.