Ma Yuan

Will Gatherer

doi:10.5771/9781793609021

Summary

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

Ma Yuan: The Chinese Avant-Garde, Metafiction, and Post-Postmodernism in the works of Ma Yuan provides the most comprehensive study to date on one of China’s most influential contemporary authors, Ma Yuan. By engaging in close readings of narratologically complex works of metafiction, the author offers a reappraisal of the role Ma Yuan played within the rise of postmodern fiction within China and offers new interpretive possibilities for the Chinese Avant-Garde movement of the 1980s through demonstrating that rather than being predominantly ‘formalist word games’ or ‘narrative traps’, Ma Yuan’s works of metafiction functioned as Foucauldian ‘heterotopias’ which allowed for the creation of distinctly Post-modern and Post-socialist ‘possible worlds’. This book also analyses Ma Yuan’s recent post-2000 output and in doing so explores the shifting dynamics of literary self-reflexivity and the ‘Post-postmodern’ within the contemporary context of ‘Xi Jinping era modernity’. This book argues that Ma Yuan’s recent works display a distinct movement towards ‘metamodern’ aesthetics alongside a rising anthropocenic awareness and eco-consciousness which offer key insights into the post-postmodern condition within a Chinese context.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-0901-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-0902-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 150
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. 1. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. The Goddess of Lhasa River 拉萨河女神 No access
2. Ma Yuan, the “Author” and the “Reader” No access
3. The Allure of the Gangdisê Mountains 冈底斯的诱惑 No access
4. The “Anatomy” of a Polyvocal Metafiction: Authors, Texts, and Ontological Uncertainty No access
5. Are “You” the Reader, Lu Gao, Yao Liang or Qiongbu? No access
6. “Who Is Yao Liang Anyway?” The Yao Liang and Lu Gao “Pseudo-couple” No access
7. Fabrication 虚构 No access
8. Love in the Age of Leprosy No access
9. A Wall Covered with Strange Patterns 涂满古怪图案的墙壁 No access
10. Mise En Abyme: Narrative Mimesis and Narrative Ontology No access
11. Intertextuality ad Absurdam No access
12. The Author(s) within the Text(s) No access
13. The Death of the/an Author No access
14. Notes No access
1. Mistakes: Narrativizing Memory, Experience and Writing No access
2. Narrating Loss and a Lost Hat No access
3. Old Death: 旧死 No access
4. Trauma, Text, Violence: The End of the Avant-Garde No access
1. Further Intertextuality Ad Absurdam No access
2. Chapter “0”: Has “Ma Yuan” Finally Entered the Text? No access
3. Looking for Kilometer Zero: The Journey from “Da Yuan” to “Ma Yuan” No access
4. Li Desheng and I: Da Yuan in Tibet No access
5. Da Yuan after “Ma Yuan” No access
6. Notes No access
1. Entanglement: “Kafka + Raymond Chandler: Philosophy + Suspense” No access
2. Ma Yuan’s “New Realism” No access
3. Notes No access
1. “Teacher Ma” in Nannuoshan No access
2. Metafictional Mythologies along China’s Border No access
3. The Priest and the Shaman: The Narratives of Bie Yangwu and Bei Ma No access
4. Notes No access
1. Ma Yuan’s Textual Landscapes: An Intertextual Cartography No access
2. Ma Yuan and the Avant-Garde No access
3. Ma Yuan after the Avant-Garde: Metamodernism? Post-postmodernism? No access
4. Notes No access
1. List of Sources in Chinese No access
Index No access Pages 147 - 148
About the Author No access Pages 149 - 150