| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 321 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-316) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: A Literature "Out of the Ruins"? 1. From Tradition to Modernity: Intellectual and Peasant in Transition 2. Language and Textuality: Toward an Analytical Methodology 3. Lu Xun and the Crisis of the Writing Self 4. Zhao Shuli: The "Making" of a Model Peasant Writer 5. Reassessing the Past in the "New Era": Gao Xiaosheng 6. Post Modern "Search for Roots" in Han Shaogong, Mo Yan, and Wang Anyi Epilogue or, What Next? |
| Summary |
"The division between the scholar-gentry class and the "people" was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectual self and the peasant "other" a central concern of literature. The author argues that, in the process, they created the "peasantry," the downtrodden rural masses represented as proper objects of political action and shifting ideological agendas."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout this transition, language or discourse has been not only a weapon of struggle but the center of controversy and contention. Because of this primacy of language, the author's main approach is the close reading or, rather, re-reading of significant narrative fictions from four literary generations to demonstrate how historical, ideological, and cultural issues are absorbed, articulated, and debated within the text."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Chinese fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Peasants in literature.
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Peasants in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feuerwerker, Yi-tsi Mei, 1928- Ideology, power, text. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998 0804733198 (DLC) 97049582 (OCoLC)38061636 |
| ISBN |
9780804765190 (electronic book) |
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0804765197 (electronic book) |
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0804733198 |
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9780804733199 |
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