- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 255 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Brushing history against the grain (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Brushing history against the grain (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references ([213]-249) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language (note)
- English with some Chinese.
- Contents
- Introduction. The subordination of yanyi ; Canonizing revolution ; The new historical fiction -- Towards a delineation. Alternative histories ; Historiographic metafictions -- The tyranny of time. The birth of a temporal logic ; The Enlightenment legacy in retrospection ; Modernity and its discontents -- The proliferation of hetertopias. Mapping the geographies of the NHF ; The spatialization of time -- Writing decadence as allegory. Chinese decadence revisited ; Allegorizing historical decadence ; A rhetoric of sickness -- Constructing a "clean spirit". Writing in the Musilm way ; Aestheicizing pessimism and heterodoxy ; Journey to conversion -- Writing the peripheral into dictionary. The spatial form ; Fragments ; Rewriting history ; The power of words ; Dilemma -- History, fiction, and metafiction. Sexing Chinese history ; Living in totalitarian terror ; Intertextuality, memory and amnesia -- Conclusion : straddling traditionality and postmodernity.
- LCCN
- 2006473433
- OCLC
- ssj0000413263
- Author
Lin, Qingxin, Ph.D.
- Title
Brushing history against the grain [electronic resource] : reading the Chinese new historical fiction (1986-1999) / Lin Qingxin.
- Imprint
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ([213]-249) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language
English with some Chinese.
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