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Author:

Kong, Belinda, 1976-

Title:

Tiananmen fictions outside the square : the Chinese literary diaspora and the politics of global culture / Belinda Kong.

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

viii, 278 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Chinese literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.
China--History--Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989.
Authors, Chinese--Foreign countries.
Chinese diaspora in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-274) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Tiananmen in diaspora and in fiction -- The existentialist square: Gao Xingjian's Taowang -- pt. 1. The prize and the polis -- pt. 2. Fleeing Tiananmen -- The aporetic square: Ha Jin's The crazed -- pt. 1. The scholar and the student -- pt. 2. -- The lost square -- The globalized square: Annie Wang's Lili -- pt. 1. Female hooligans and global capital -- pt. 2. Equivocal transnationalism -- The biopolitical square: Ma Jian's Beijing coma -- pt. 1. Tiananmen cannibals and biopower -- pt. 2. Reclaiming student life and after -- Conclusion: the square comes full circle.

Series:

Asian American history and culture

ISBN:

1439907609 (e-book)
9781439907603 (e-book)
1439907595 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781439907597 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1439907587 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439907580 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)749855455

LCCN:

2011043063

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)