عنوان

Brushing history against the grain :

(Number (ISBN

9622096972

(Number (ISBN

9789622096974

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Title Proper

Brushing history against the grain :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

reading the Chinese new historical fiction (1986-1999) /

First Statement of Responsibility

Lin Qingxin

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Hong Kong :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Hong Kong University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2005

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vi, 255 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references ([213]-249) and index

Text of Note

Introduction. The subordination of yanyi ; Canonizing revolution ; The new historical fiction -- Towards a delineation. Alternative histories ; Historiographic metafictions -- The tyranny of time. The birth of a temporal logic ; The Enlightenment legacy in retrospection ; Modernity and its discontents -- The proliferation of hetertopias. Mapping the geographies of the NHF ; The spatialization of time -- Writing decadence as allegory. Chinese decadence revisited ; Allegorizing historical decadence ; A rhetoric of sickness -- Constructing a "clean spirit". Writing in the Musilm way ; Aestheicizing pessimism and heterodoxy ; Journey to conversion -- Writing the peripheral into dictionary. The spatial form ; Fragments ; Rewriting history ; The power of words ; Dilemma -- History, fiction, and metafiction. Sexing Chinese history ; Living in totalitarian terror ; Intertextuality, memory and amnesia -- Conclusion : straddling traditionality and postmodernity

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Historical fiction, Chinese-- 20th century-- History and criticism

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Lin, Qingxin,Ph.D

Date of Transaction

20070301083001.0

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[Book]

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