This collection provides a critical reexamination of the
development and current status of comparative literature studies
that engage the literary practices of both China and the West. In
so doing, it attempts to refashion literary methodologies and
cultural theories in Chinese studies and reread several
noncanonical texts in ways that cut across disciplines, genders,
and modernities.
Eschewing conventional taxonomies such as the study of literary
influences and parallels, this volume shifts the emphasis from
Chinese-Western comparativism to a critical rereading of Chinese or
China-related texts using a variety of new critical approaches.
Essays that draw on literary history, comparative poetics,
modernist aesthetics, feminist studies, gender theory, and
postcolonial discourse exemplify how multifaceted approaches can
enrich our understanding of this field.
The essays are grouped in three parts: studies of disciplines,
institutions, and canon formation; gender, sexuality, and the body;
and technology, modernity, and aesthetics. They cover a range of
subjects, including the challenge of East-West comparative
literature, the impact of literary theory on Sinological research,
canon formation in traditional Chinese poetry, gender and sexuality
in Ming drama, contemporary Chinese fiction and television drama,
the problem of translation, the influence of science fiction, and
the "cult of poetry" in post-Mao China.
The introductory chapter traces the rise of the Chinese school of
comparative literature and addresses the issues facing Western
scholars of Chinese-Western comparative literature. A concluding
chapter summarizes recent remappings of the geocultural world and
outlines future possibilities for comparative literature.
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