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Old Stories Retold
Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China
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2010
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Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter Benjamin’s discussions of history, G. Andrew Stuckey looks at the ways Chinese narrative engages a historical process that pieces together fragments of the past into new configurations to better serve present needs. By examining intertextual connections between separate texts, Stuckey seeks to discover traces of an “original,” whether it be thought of as the past, history, or tradition, when it has been rewritten in modern and contemporary Chinese fiction. Old Stories Retold shows how the articulation of the past into new historical configurations disrupts accepted understandings of the past, and as such, can be intentionally pitted against modernist historical knowledge to resist the modernist ends that this knowledge is mobilized to achieve.
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1/2010
Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2362-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3395-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
201
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1: Introduction: History, Memory, and Phantasmal Pasts No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 2: Tradition Redux: Parody and Pathology No access
Chapter 3: Return to the Primitive: De-Civilized Origins in Han Shaogong's Fiction No access
Chapter 4: Interlude: The Maoist (Anti)Tradition and the Nationalist (Neo)Tradition No access
Chapter 5: The Lyrical and the Local: Shen Congwen, Roots, and Temporality in the Lyrical Tradition No access
Chapter 6: Tradition in Exile: Allusion and Quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei People No access
Chapter 7: Back to the Future: Temporality and Cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow No access
Chapter 8: Globalized Traditions: Zhu Tianxin's the Ancient Capital No access
