Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema
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Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema

Sinophone Variations of the Bildungsroman

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Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema

Sinophone Variations of the Bildungsroman

About this book

With the inclusion of twelve original articles by established and emerging international scholars, this volume offers critical reading of literary and cinematic texts produced in China and Sinophone communities between the 1950s and 2010s. The articles portray the lineage and mutations of the Chinese Bildungsroman, providing insights into the tensions between individual and society; nation and the world; and the multiple social, ecological, and virtual realities of recent decades. Concerned with how coming-of-age narratives have persistently returned and evolved over time, the book addresses themes such as family and social change; gender, class, and generational divides, local/global politics, and the ecological and posthuman turns in Chinese/Sinophone culture. It offers a fresh look on how the transnational and transgenerational journeys of Bildungsroman and coming-of-age narratives continuously transform and reinvigorate generic conventions, to explore adolescence as a formative social force and aesthetic experience in Chinese/Sinophone literature and film.This book aims to open up dialogues for better understanding emergent cultural forms that reflect social instability arising from the global spread of contemporary neo-liberal capitalism, and to constitute the foundation of an innovative history of Sinophone literature. It does not only take into account the complicated survival struggles of the subjects of Mao's revolution including refugee-immigrants turned colonial subjects, but also the interaction between literature and the arts as well as between human and nonhuman agents (place, material culture, nature, etc.).

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Yes, you can access Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema by Andrea Riemenschnitter,Kiu-wai Chu,Mung Ting Chung in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040797761
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Film & Video
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Note on Romanizations and Translations
  8. Introduction
  9. SECTION I The Global Sixties and Leftist Activism
  10. 1. The Socialist Bildungsroman and Global Youth: Wang Meng and Jack Kerouac
  11. 2. Growing Up in an Age of Turbulence: The Bildungsromane of Young Hong Kong Writers in the Sixties
  12. 3. Abandoning Iowa’s Modernism: Wan Kin-lau Renounces His Bildung in the Cold War Era
  13. SECTION II Afterlives and Unstable Repositionings
  14. 4. Mapping and Contesting the Notion of Sinophone: The Coming of Age of Global Chinese Literature
  15. 5. The Coming of Age of Hong Kong: Dung Kai-cheung’s Celestial Creations and the Works of Man: Vividness and Veracity
  16. 6. Coming of Age and Learning to Live (with Ghosts) in Borneo’s Rainforest
  17. SECTION III Screening Urban Precarity
  18. 7. Little Pinks, Shamate Kids, and the Involuted Generation: A Coming-of-Age Portrait of China’s Post-1990s Generation
  19. 8. Sentimentality and the Capitalization of Humanity: On Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo
  20. 9. Years of the Yearning Youth: Growth, Flows, and the Dilemma of Maturity in Hong Kong Coming-of-Age Films
  21. SECTION IV The Ecological and the Posthuman
  22. 10. Spectral Mappings: Coming of Age in Su Tong’s Shadow of the Hunter
  23. 11. Coming of Age in Post-Urban Hong Kong: An Ecocritical Approach to Land-Writing and Land-Filming
  24. 12. Becoming a Cyborg: Female Coming of Age in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index