Chinese Revolution and Chinese Literature (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

This volume has brought together essays to explore, analyse and interpret the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature over the past century from various angles. The authors examines the bodily or carnal dimension, especially the hidden implication of sexual passion, in revolutionary literature, formulate feminist critiques of the conception of women in literary expressions of revolution, explore the function of revolution as historical discourse and in historiographical representation, and discuss the reworking of "revolutionary classics" in recent literary and artistic endeavours. Here, revolution (in history and in literature) is conceptualized neither as an unquestionably progressive and creative force for a new world, nor an absolutely pejorative concept that necessarily leads to sociopolitical turmoil and tragedy. Insofar as "postrevolutionary writings" cannot but reappropriate the revolutionary spirit as their unavoidable and inseparable traumatic kernel, studies in revolutionary literature and culture, too, go through the zigzag experience of revolution in order to scrutinize its complex implications.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2009
First published:	July 2009
Editors:	Tao Dongfeng • Rosemary Roberts • Yang Xiaobin
Dimensions:	212 x 148 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	330
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4438-0974-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	1-4438-0974-8
Barcode:	9781443809740

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