Overview
The Chinese Cultural Revolution is the single most important internal social event in contemporary Chinese history. The plethora of history, literary, and artistic representations inspired by this event are critical to our understanding of the diversified, often contested, interpretations of contemporary China. Li Li’s critical examination of autobiographic, filmic and fictional presentations in Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering: The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking Countries demonstrates that “memory works” not only reflect memories of those who lived through that period, but memories about their past, and, more importantly, about their identity remapping and artistic negotiation in a cross-cultural environment.
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Author: Li Li
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 15
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.471kg
ISBN: 9789004323544
ISBN 10: 9004323546
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 09 June 2016
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Mnemonic Practices and the Products of Historical Trauma 1 Changing Concepts of Memory: Setting the Analytical Parameters 2 Contested Memories of the Cultural Revolution: A Historical Perspective 7 Working with Memory: A Survey of Existing Representations 12 Thesis and Chapter Overview 20 1 Ideologies, Textualization, and Consumption of Chinese Red Guard Memoirs 25 The Autobiographical Act and the Narrated Identity 26 The Problematic Creation of Trueness 29 Ambivalence in Narrating Authorial Morality 37 Manufacturing Red Guard Memoirs in the English-language Book Market 43 2 Alternative Remembrances of the Cultural Revolution in Spider Eaters and Six Chapters of Life at a Cadre School 49 Multiple Voices, Split Personality, and Unreliable Memory in Spider Eaters 50 Remembering Between the Extreme and the Everyday in Six Chapters of Life at a Cadre School 58 3 The Politics and Pleasures of Visualizing the Sent-down Youth in the Global Film Market 73 Illusion, Symbolism, and the Problem of Translation in King of the Children 75 Body, Perverse Spectator, and the Making of Victimhood in Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl 83 Ethnographic Gaze, Adolescent Fantasy, and the Paradox of Modernity in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 90 4 Mirrors without Memories : History, Remembering, and Documentary Truth 103 Though I Was Gone: How Should an Atrocity Be Documented? 104 Morning Sun: Performing History 111 5 In Search of Subjectivity: Memory and Inner Narrative in Gao Xingjian's One Man's Bible 127 Personal Memory, Self-Imposed Exile, and Individual Voices 128 Shifting Pronouns, Split Self, and Mobile Subjectivity 136 Corporeal Memory, Intimacy, and Private Space 147 6 Sex, Murder, and Bodily Transgression: The Cultural Revolution in Translational Mass Literature 155 Red Azalea: Female Subjectivity or Political Fantasy? 156 When Red Is Black: Murder and the Hidden Truth of the Cultural Revolution 165 Coda: The Future of Remembering the Past 178 Bibliography 189 Index 202
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Li Li, Ph.D. (2007), University of California at Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies at the University of Denver. She has published translations and articles on modern and contemporary Chinese literary and visual culture.
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