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Narrating China Jia Pingwa and his Fictional World 1st Edition by Yiyan Wang ISBN 0203352777 9780203352779

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Author(s): Yiyan Wang
ISBN(s): 9780203352779, 0203352777
Edition: Kindle
File Details: PDF, 6.82 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0203352777 
ISBN 13: 9780203352779
Author: Yiyan Wang

Jia Pingwa, whose novels have caused both fame and controversy, has an enormous readership throughout the Chinese speaking world. However, despite Pingwa’s cultural significance and the use of his poetry, novels and prose in schools and universities, there has never been any substantial academic study of the writer and his writings. Filling that gap, this book examines the corpus of Pingwa’s writing and emphasizes his importance, prominence and relevance to contemporary Chinese society. This pioneering study discusses Pingwa’s works in the light of ‘cultural nationalism’, showing how he links the cultural identity of China with the cultural authenticity of his local Shaanxi Province. In addition, the book highlights issues of nationalism in contemporary Chinese literature and underpins the significance of regional writing in negotiating China’s national identities.

Narrating China Jia Pingwa and his Fictional World 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
From mountain village to provincial capital
From author to text
Native place in modern Chinese fiction
Native place and literary nativism
From local stories to national myths
Jia Pingwa: Shangzhou and the nativist style

2 The life and career of Jia Pingwa
Birth, naming and growth
The rising phoenix
Self-representation of a ‘peasant writer’
Periods of development

3 Defunct Capital and cultural landscaping
The story and characters
National allegorization
Semiotics of Chinese cultural space
The implications of ‘cultural idlers’
Marketplaces, popular culture and urban life in Xijing

4 Defunct Capital and the sexual dissident
The triumph of ‘soft’ masculinity in scholar–beauty romance
The talented communist scholars
Cultural roots and masculinity
The talented scholar in Defunct Capital
Writing and ‘soft’ masculinity
Mr Butterfly’s negative Bildungsroman
Masculinity, self-denial and self-contradiction
Mr Butterfly and (mis)engendering China

5 Defunct Capital and female domesticity
Domesticity and village women
Domesticity and femininity in Defunct Capital
Women as furen, mothers, and femmes fatales
Double objectification of women
Domesticity as female destination
The object of language

6 White Nights and sleepless in Xijing
The country man as Dostoevskian hero
Between urban myths and traditional elite cultural practice
Popular art, popular culture and popular beliefs
The idler’s encounter with business culture and political corruption
Intertextuality in White Nights

7 Earth Gate and loss of native place
Simplified characters: the village personalities
War of resistance: between benevolence and tyranny
Urban hostility and rural confusion
The peasants: between native place and urban modernity

8 Old Gao Village and native place dystopia
Narrative forms of community
Historiography and community
Location and community
Community degeneration
The aesthetics of narrating a community

9 Remembering Wolves – the function of local events
Records of events as the key to locality
From local events to the ethnography of Shangzhou
Attached to mountains: towards a native subjectivity
Metamorphosis: the hunter’s heroic self and beast Other

10 Poetry, essays and textual personality
Poetry and its narrative role
Self, society and cultural space in the essay
Conclusion: the poetics of native place
Narrating China and the poetics of native place
Authenticity and fictional estrangement
From Health Report to Local Accent: future poetics of native place

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