The Chinese Postmodern
Subtitle: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: July 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780472112418
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Postmodernism (Literature); Ethnic Studies - General; Chinese Novel And Short Story; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Chinese; Literature: Classics; China; History and criticism; Asia - General; Asian - Chinese; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; 20th century; Chinese fiction
Description: "The Chinese Postmodern is a study of contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction from the perspective of cultural and literary postmodernity, historical trauma, and rhetorical irony. Showcasing the talents of such major writers as Can Xue, Ge Fei, Ma Yuan, Mo Yan, Xu Xiaohe, and Yu Hua, this volume focuses on the interplay between historical psychology and representational mode and between political discourse and literary rhetoric.".

"Xiaobin Yang draws on a number of theories, psychoanalysis and deconstruction in particular, and incorporates them into the sociohistorical approach to illuminate the nuances of literary and cultural phenomena.

Revealing the hidden connection between the deconstructive mode of writing and the posttraumatic historical experience, The Chinese Postmodern shows how avant-garde literature brings about a heterogeneous literary paradigm that defies the dominant, subject-centered one in twentieth-century China."--BOOK JACKET.