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Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture by Belinda Kong

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How the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre haunts the work of writers in the Chinese diaspora.

How the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre haunts the work of writers in the Chinese diaspora.

About the Author
Belinda Kong is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English at Bowdoin College.

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"This penetrating, well-theorized, lucid book is the first to ponder the global literary impact of 'Tiananmen,' now the generally accepted shorthand term for the 1989 Beijing democracy movement and the army massacre that ended it. Kong provides close readings of four Tiananmen-related works... Recommended."Choice, November 2012 "Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square examines from the perspective of diaspora theory works of Sinophone literature that relate directly or indirectly to the Tiananmen crackdown of 4 June 1989. The framework is intriguing, and takes to a higher level the theoretical conceptions of amnesia and memory and the complex relations of emigre writers to the Chinese homeland. The layered writing draws together various strands of diaspora theory and imparts new meanings to the construction of 'Chineseness'."--The China Journal "[E]xcellent... Kong's aim is to provide a solid introduction to a 'distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora' brought into being by Tiananmen... Kong illuminates the conflicting features of the literary diaspora that Tiananmen gave rise to: self-exoticization and melancholic repetition-compulsion on one side and a simultaneous critique of Chinese authoritarianism and global neoliberal capitalism on the other."--World Literature Today, November 2013



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ISBN 9781439907597
Author Belinda Kong
Format Paperback
Page Count 278
Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.
Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm

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