Configurations of the Individual in Modern Chinese Literature
This book aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of configurations of the individual in modern Chinese literature through analyzing several classic texts written by Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun, Lao She, and Mu Shiying. It attempts to refresh our understanding of th
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Configurations of the Individual in Modern Chinese Literature “This book offers a way into a concept that has embarrassed and baffled literary and cultural studies broadly—not just those focused on China, not only modern. The individual: the author lifts the edge of the term’s banality to show, in careful, philologically driven close readings of the major narrative and poetic works of Chinese modernity, the shapes that most distress literary criticism and contemporary political philosophy: the role that literary representation plays in the construction of coercive egalitarianism; of well-policed exemplarity; and above all of their terrible juncture, what might be called (with Macpherson) hegemonic possessive individualism. Configurations of the Individual in Modern Chinese Literature is much more than a remarkable book of criticism: it offers a brave, clear-sighted and in many ways ruthless description of the individual’s capture in regimes of representation. For scholars of modern China, Configurations of the Individual will mark a milestone; for critics flailing in efforts to find alternatives to hoary subjectivities and narrowing identitarianism, its analysis of the Chinese case should become a conceptual point of reference and a model of practice.” —Jacques Lezra, Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside
Qin Wang
Configurations of the Individual in Modern Chinese Literature
Qin Wang East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
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