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The Subversive Self in Modern Chinese Literature
The Creation Society's Reinvention of the Japanese ShishĂ´setsu
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The Subversive Self in Modern Chinese Literature
The Creation Society's Reinvention of the Japanese ShishĂ´setsu
About this book
An examination of whether Chinese writers of the Creation Society, a Chinese literary coterie, successfully appropriated shishosetsu, a quintessentially Japanese form of autobiographical narrative, into a form to be exploited for their own ends, especially political ends.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- A Note About Romanization
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 ShishĂ´setsu Theory in Japan and the Creation Societyâs Encounter with the form
- 2 Creation Society Fiction and the Subjective Quality of May Fourth Literature
- 3 Bundan Versus Wentan: the Dynamics of the Literary Coterie and its Audience(S)
- 4 The Creation Societyâs Remakingof the ShishĂ´setsu
- 5 The Limits of Subversion: Political and Social Critique in the Creation Societyâs Early Fiction
- 6 The Legacy of the ShishĂ´setsu in Chinese Literature
- Notes
- Appendix A: Synopses of Selected Creation Society Stories
- Appendix B: Glossary of Selected Terms from Chinese and Japanese
- Bibliography
- Index